Rob, > I have a need to iterate through a multibyte string to process the string > character by character.
> -- Is using mb_substr($str, $i, 1) the only way to get this to work in php5? > That's my question. > > It seems like it's going to be many times slower according to some of the > comments I've seen on the multibyte functions in the php manual. This might be a bit quicker: $str = "string with utf-8 chars åèö"; $t = preg_split('//u',$str,-1,PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY); var_dump($t); Dan _______________________________________________ New York PHP Users Group Community Talk Mailing List http://lists.nyphp.org/mailman/listinfo/talk http://www.nyphp.org/Show-Participation