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Asked: 2026-05-22T14:39:32+00:00

I was wondering how do I find out how many bytes does a character

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I was wondering how do I find out how many bytes does a character have?

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    If you want to find out how many UTF-8 bytes a letter in a PHP string has then:

    print strlen(mb_substr($string, 0, 1, "utf-8"));

    strlen() returns the raw byte length, while mb_substr() returns a “character” according to the charset/encoding. In this example from position 0.

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