Question

I have an Arabic paragraph which need to be split in half.

The delimiter is:

معلومات هامة

My attempt:

$st = utf8_encode("معلومات هامة");
$info = preg_split('/'.$st.'/', $paragraph);

It didn’t help, I get array with element 0 which hold the whole paragraph, so
info output is exactly as paragraph output.

Note: the paragraph has inconsistent newlines and spaces.

Answer 1

You can try with mb_split to handle UTF-8 content.

Also you can try to prepend this function with:

mb_internal_encoding( 'UTF-8'); 
mb_regex_encoding( 'UTF-8');