function utf8_substr($str,$start) {
/*
UTF-8 version of substr(), for people who can't use mb_substr() like me.
Length is not the count of Bytes, but the count of UTF-8 Characters
Author: Windix Feng
Bug report to: windix(AT)gmail.com, http://www.douzi.org
- History -
1.0 2004-02-01 Initial Version
2.0 2004-02-01 Use PREG instead of STRCMP and cycles, SPEED UP!
*/
preg_match_all("/[x01-x7f]|[xc2-xdf][x80-xbf]|xe0[xa0-xbf][x80-xbf]|[xe1-xef][x80-xbf][x80-xbf]|xf0[x90-xbf][x80-xbf][x80-xbf]|[xf1-xf7][x80-xbf][x80-xbf][x80-xbf]/", $str, $ar);
if(func_num_args() >= 3) {
$end = func_get_arg(2);
return join("",array_slice($ar[0],$start,$end));
} else {
return join("",array_slice($ar[0],$start));
}
}
?>