To deal with multibyte characters and encodings (such as Japanese and Korean)
you may use the mbstring extension.
- • Support for ASCII, JIS, Shift-JIS, EUC-(JP|CN|TW|KR), UTF8, Big5, CP866, CP936, CP1251, Koi8r encodings
- • Replacement for many of PHP's standard string handling
functions.
- • Multibyte regular expressions
- • Transparent encoding handlers via PHP's output handling mechanism