{"id":16000,"date":"2015-07-17T05:01:38","date_gmt":"2015-07-16T19:01:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/?p=16000"},"modified":"2015-07-16T11:39:22","modified_gmt":"2015-07-16T01:39:22","slug":"php-mbstring-multibyte-string-primer-tutorial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rjmprogramming.com.au\/ITblog\/php-mbstring-multibyte-string-primer-tutorial\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Mbstring Multibyte String Primer Tutorial"},"content":{"rendered":"
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PHP Mbstring Multibyte String Primer Tutorial<\/p><\/div>\n

Our (Mac OS X laptop) local MAMP<\/a> web server is an Apache\/PHP\/MySql web server. In this environment you can find out a lot with some PHP code as per …<\/p>\n

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… and if, in doing this, you find a reference to the “mbstring”<\/a> Multibyte String Information functionality existing, you are a lucky candidate to introduce some internationalization code into your PHP code, for those occasions where the destination language uses a UTF-8<\/a> character set where individual characters can not be described by the ascii character set from decimal 0 to decimal 255. In other words, it takes more than one byte to describe each character of the language. There are many languages like this, a few being the Chinese languages, Japanese and Korean.<\/p>\n

We followed a lot of the advice of the very useful link<\/a> (thanks) to create some PHP called …<\/p>\n