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Oskar Kupski
Oskar Kupski

Reputation: 1

PHP polish letters as first element of array not displayed

I've got an issue: I have string $title = "ŁAZIENKA" and I need to convert it to: <span>Ł</span>AZIENKA.

I used tried to get the first element of string like this: $first = $title[0] and $first = substr($title, 0, 1). In both cases $first equals "?".

I also tried some utf8_encode() and mb_convert_ecncoding(), but it still doesn't work

Upvotes: 0

Views: 232

Answers (1)

Imanuel
Imanuel

Reputation: 3667

For multibyte strings, you need to use the mb_-functions:

first = mb_substr($title, 0, 1)

It's best to use them all the time - except you can definitely rule out that multibyte character can be part of that string.

Upvotes: 2

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