nicetrim() and e with :

[lajkonik86]

Im applying a trim function to maximise the number of characters. However my ië, is turned into ië,

using the following function:

function nicetrim($s, $MAX_LENGTH) {
  $str_to_count = html_entity_decode($s);
  if (strlen($str_to_count) <= $MAX_LENGTH)
    return $s;
  $s2 = substr($str_to_count, 0, $MAX_LENGTH - 3);
  $s2 .= "...";
  return htmlentities($s2);
}

hope someone can help me with my confusion🙂

[suntra]

Sounds like a charset problem...

If you use UTF-8 for example, you have to use html_entity_decode() and htmlentities() this way :

$strString = html_entity_decode($strString, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');

$strString = htmlentities($strString, ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8');