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Asked: 2026-05-13T07:25:11+00:00

I’m working on a project which needs to be Unicode aware. PHP provides bunch

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I’m working on a project which needs to be Unicode aware. PHP provides bunch of useful functions like str_count_words() to calculate the number of words in some input, but they won’t work against UTF-8 data in PHP < 6 which is a shame. The same applies to strlen(), strrev(), etc.

What should I do about this? PHP 6 is still not even out yet so I can’t require people to have it to use my software…

Should I just write a wrapper library for string functions that will either use PHP 6’s functions or my own in case the version is below 6?

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  1. Editorial Team

    You could use the multibyte string comparison functions.

    Another good idea might be looking at how others do it, especially well-established and matured systems like WordPress and Drupal. As far as I am aware, they all have own wrappers around multibyte functions.

    Additional possibly interesting resources:

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