I have this code case strlen($search_term) > 15:
in my switch
statement. I cannot figure out why Greek characters are parsed different. For example a string
in Latin with the length of 10 passes the case
but if the string
is in Greek, it does not.
Except the solution i would appreciate an explanation of my problem.
strlen()
returns the bytes of the string, not the length.
Many greek characters are 2 bytes instead of 1, thats why you think you take wrong results.
Use mb_strlen()
instead : http://lt.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-strlen.php
Hope this helps