Len – stoimen's web log on web development Tue, 13 Feb 2018 08:18:15 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=5.0.3 Why mb_strlen() Doesn’t Return the Correct Lenght /2010/04/28/why-mb_strlen-doesnt-return-the-correct-lenght/ /2010/04/28/why-mb_strlen-doesnt-return-the-correct-lenght/#respond Wed, 28 Apr 2010 16:17:08 +0000 /?p=1497 Related posts:
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]]> It’s strange to notice that mb_strlen() doesn’t return always what you expect. The problem of course is in you, not in mb_strlen(). That’s because you probably doesn’t specify encoding.

echo mb_strlen($str, 'UTF-8');

Now that’s another case!

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