I am having a word like "Stefan Äöüéèêë". I want to truncate this string after 20 characters...but it is giving me like Stefan Äöüéèê� . I am using following code for this.
$string = "Stefan Äöüéèêë"; if(strlen($string) > 20){ $string = substr($string, 0, 20) . '...'; } How can I get string which is safely truncated.
Use the multibyte version of it: http://php.net/manual/de/function.mb-substr.php
Further more here is a list of unicode unsafe methods that is quite handy: http://www.phpwact.org/php/i18n/utf-8
Note: strlen does return the wrong value
try this friend , if you decode the string then it will give proper length of string.
$string = "Stefan Äöüéèêë"; $string= utf8_decode($string); echo strlen($string); if(strlen($string) > 10){ $string = mb_substr($string, 0, 10); } echo $string; 
strlen() because that gives you the total number of bytes, not characters. Use mb_strlen() instead.