Posted by Mathias K. on 07/19/07 16:15

Hello!

Could anyone give me a hint how to split up an utf8 string character-wise
with PHP?

In my case it's a Japanese string. As the lengths of each Japanese
character can differ from 2 to 6 bytes i don't know how to find out where
one character begins and the other ends.

I tried splitting it up with mb_split:

$departed = implode('<br>', mb_split("\w", $word));

Well it doesn't seem to work. The Japanese character totally get messed up.

Does anyone have a clue what regex to use or how else i could split a
Japanese string character wise?

Thanks in advance!


~ Mathias

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