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ikebastuz
ikebastuz

Reputation: 389

php str_split encoding ussies

I kinda tried googling everything i could imagine(

I have a russian string stored in a variable And i need to put it on image using gd2 library one character by another. Everything works fine, except putting it 1 by 1. When i try to split it with str_split, or analogs or char by char or substring, i get something like this:

$str = "ку";
$data = str_split($str);
var_dump($data);

    array(14) { [0]=> string(1) "&" 
[1]=> string(1) "#" 
[2]=> string(1) "1" 
[3]=> string(1) "0" 
[4]=> string(1) "8" 
[5]=> string(1) "2" 
[6]=> string(1) ";" 
[7]=> string(1) "&" 
[8]=> string(1) "#" 
[9]=> string(1) "1" 
[10]=> string(1) "0" 
[11]=> string(1) "9" 
[12]=> string(1) "1" 
[13]=> string(1) ";" }

I tried like everything i could find, but result is still the same. Hope you can help. Thanks.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 355

Answers (1)

HenningCash
HenningCash

Reputation: 2120

Your string contains multibyte characters. The basic PHP string functions only work with single-byte characters. There are special mb_* string functions but the mb_split function cannot handle your requirements.

So you should use preg_split() with the unicode flag:

preg_split('//u', "ку", -1, PREG_SPLIT_NO_EMPTY);

Upvotes: 1

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