I have a server (Ubuntu 11.10 x64) running PHP 5.3.8 with Apache2 / MySQL. I'm currently working on a project where I'm required to do some specific character encoding, but I found out that none of...

Is there anyway to get libc6's regexp functions regcomp and regexec to work properly with multi-byte characters? For instance, if my pattern is the utf8 characters 猫机+猫, finding a match on the utf...

Seams to be like sprintf have a problem with foregin characters? Or is it me doing something wrong? Looks like it work when removing chars like åäö from the string though. Should that be necessary?...

I am using the stripos() function to check if a string is located inside another string, ignoring any cases. Here is the problem: stripos("ø", "Ø") returns false. While stripos...

Following my previous question: Why `strchr` seems to work with multibyte characters, despite man page disclaimer?, I figured out that strchr was a bad choice. Instead I am thinking about using st...

I'm looking for a multi-byte function to replace preg_match_all(). I need one that will give me an array of matched strings, like the $matches argument from preg_match(). The function mb_ereg_match...

I am currently matching HTML using this code: preg_match('/<\/?([a-z]+)[^>]*>|&#?[a-zA-Z0-9]+;/u', $html, $match, PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE, $position) It matches everything perfect...

I'm trying to do accented character replacement in PHP but get funky results, my guess being because i'm using a UTF-8 string and str_replace can't properly handle multi-byte strings.. $accents_se...

There are multibyte string functions in PHP to handle multibyte string (e.g:CJK script). For example, I want to count how many letters in a multi bytes string by using len function in python, but i...

I'm not quite pro with encodings, but here's what I think I know (though it may be wrong): ASCII is a 7-bit, fixed-length encoding, with the characters you can find in ASCII charts. UTF8 is an 8-...

These past few days I've been working toward converting my PHP code base from latin1 to UTF-8. I've read the two main solutions are to either replace the single byte functions with the built in mul...