On Wed, 8 Sep 2004, Marek Kilimajer wrote: > John Smith wrote: > > What's the most accurate way to get the byte count of > > some text? Is strlen() accurate with Unicode, ASCII, > > etc.? > > > > John > > > > strlen() is fine even for multibyte encodings, it does not know about > encoding and returns the "raw" size. If you wanted the number of > characters, you would need multibyte support.
mbstring can overload strlen and give you the correct character count for the various encodings. See php.net/mbstring -Rasmus -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
