Note: mb_strwidth is NOT returning bytes. It's returning the width of monotype characters. (In some languages, some characters will take up 2 character widths if displayed in monotype.)
(PHP 4 >= 4.0.6, PHP 5)
mb_strwidth — Return width of string
$str
[, string $encoding
= mb_internal_encoding()
] )
Returns the width of string str
.
Multi-byte characters are usually twice the width of single byte characters.
Chars | Width |
---|---|
U+0000 - U+0019 | 0 |
U+0020 - U+1FFF | 1 |
U+2000 - U+FF60 | 2 |
U+FF61 - U+FF9F | 1 |
U+FFA0 - | 2 |
str
The string being decoded.
encoding
The encoding
parameter is the character encoding. If it is omitted, the internal character
encoding value will be used.
The width of string str
.
Note: mb_strwidth is NOT returning bytes. It's returning the width of monotype characters. (In some languages, some characters will take up 2 character widths if displayed in monotype.)
Important, if you're looking to trim/cut/truncate a string so that it will fit a certain byte size (for example to fit in a database field), look at: mb_strcut()