Building Chinese Web Sites using PHP
Dr. Herong Yang, Version 2.11

Multibyte String Functions in UTF-8 Encoding

This chapter provides tutorial notes on using PHP multibyte string functions on Chinese character strings. Topics include loading php_mbstring.dll module; setting multibyte string functions for UTF-8 encoding; counting number of Chinese characters with mb_strlen().

php_mbstring.dll - Multibyte String Functions

mb_strlen() - Counting Multibyte Characters

List of Multibyte String Functions

Dr. Herong Yang, updated in 2007
Multibyte String Functions in UTF-8 Encoding