Question

I have the following line in my code :

  mb_substr(strip_tags($comm->getRawValue()->comment),0,30,'UTF-8')

This allows me to display only the first 30 chars of a comment.

But when the comment contains an accent at that string position, the
output is :

  "Ah non, on ne peut pas int&eac"

An html entity gets cut.

The weird behavior here is that, if I cut the string farther from the
start, it gets displayed as :

  "Ah non, on ne peut pas intég"

With no html entities, just the character ‘é’.

What is going on ?

PS_ I tried adding a html_entity_decode(), but that transforms the accent in question marks.

Answer 1

Got it !
I had to add ‘UTF-8’ to html_entity_decode :

truncate_text(html_entity_decode(strip_tags($comm->getRawValue()->comment),null,'UTF-8'),40, '…');