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PHP (mbstring) provides multibyte specific string functions that help you deal with multibyte encodings

Fatal error: Call to undefined function mb_strtolower() even if mbstring is enabled

I have just done an Os reload of my server and i've restored every thing and all data is correct …

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How does UTF-8 "variable-width encoding" work?

The unicode standard has enough code-points in it that you need 4 bytes to store them all. That's what the UTF-32 …

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PHP mb_substr() not working correctly?

This code print mb_substr('éxxx', 0, 1); prints an empty space :( It is supposed to print the first character, é. This …

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Difference between mb_substr and substr

Will it make any difference or impact on my result, if I use substr() instead of mb_substr() function? As …

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mb_detect_encoding detects ASCII as UTF-8?

I'm trying to automatically convert imported IPTC metadata from images to UTF-8 for storage in a database based on the …

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Are the PHP preg_functions multibyte safe?

There are no multibyte 'preg' functions available in PHP, so does that mean the default preg_functions are all mb …

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Ruby 1.9: how can I properly upcase & downcase multibyte strings?

So matz made the decision to keep upcase and downcase limited to /[A-Z]/i in ruby 1.9.1. ActiveSupport::Multibyte has long …

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How to check if the word is Japanese or English using PHP

I want to have different process for English word and Japanese word in this function function process_word($word) { if($…

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How can I get the single bytes from a multibyte PHP string variable in a binary-safe way?

Let's say (for simplicity's sake) that I have a multibyte, UTF-8 encoded string variable with 3 letters (consisting of 4 bytes): $original = …

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R-invalid multibyte string 1

I'm new to R software Now,studying text mining using "tm"package" I have a ploblem on mapping text to …

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