Re: [PHP] truncate a mb-string to a given octet length?

Correct me if I'm wrong, but should varchar 255 with a utf8 character set
mean 255 unicode characters, not octets?

On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 11:50 AM, Tom Worster <[email protected]> wrote:

> say a table in the db has a varchar(255) column, 255 being the max number
> of
> octets of strings that can go in the column. now say the php script very
> occasionally has to deal with utf8 input strings with octet length > 255 --
> it needs to select rows matching the input string or insert the input
> string.
>
> so what i think i need is a function to truncate a utf8 string to the
> longest valid utf8 string that has octet length <= 255.
>
> is this what mb_strcut() is for? i'm having a hard time understanding the
> man page for that function.
>
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