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phphtmlcharacter-encoding
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Reputation: 55

Incorrect charset

I have a problem with charset. On russian language I've saw symbol �

<meta> is UTF-8 , in DB charset utf8_general_ci , take data from DB with functions

substr(strip_tags(html_entity_decode($result['description'], ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8')), 0, 290) . '..'

what's the problem? what do you think?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 213

Answers (1)

Mihai Iorga
Mihai Iorga

Reputation: 39724

That is because you have Unicode characters and you are subtracting exactly in a wrong place and that letter cannot be rendered anymore.

Instead you should subtract by spaces, eg:

echo implode(' ', array_slice(explode(' ', strip_tags(html_entity_decode($sentence, ENT_QUOTES, 'UTF-8'))), 0, 50)); // for 50 words

or use substr_unicode:

function substr_unicode($str, $s, $l = null) {
    return join("", array_slice(
        preg_split("//u", $str, -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY), $s, $l));
}

Upvotes: 2

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