Important, if you're looking to trim/cut/truncate a string so that it will fit a certain byte size (for example to fit in a database field), look at: mb_strcut()
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5, PHP 7)
mb_strwidth — Return width of string
$str
[, string $encoding
= mb_internal_encoding()
] )
Returns the width of string str
.
Multi-byte characters are usually twice the width of single byte characters.
Chars | Width |
---|---|
U+0000 - U+0019 | 0 |
U+0020 - U+1FFF | 1 |
U+2000 - U+FF60 | 2 |
U+FF61 - U+FF9F | 1 |
U+FFA0 - | 2 |
The width of string str
.
Important, if you're looking to trim/cut/truncate a string so that it will fit a certain byte size (for example to fit in a database field), look at: mb_strcut()