HELP! Display doublebyte character w/ sp

[Anon]

Hi, I'm using MySQL as webDB to store up articles in double byte character (chinese). In DB table, they are one by one without space in between. Now, I want to display them with space in between on web, such like xx xx xx xx (xx means one character). How can I do that? Any reply will be appreciated.
Thx

[Anon]

hrmm.. you could try:

$string = (string from database)
$output = preg_replace("/(.{2})/", "\1 ", $string);
echo $output;

That will do it, but maybe a better way?

Hope that helps:

Chris King

[Anon]

Wonderful! that works great. Thx Chris. 🙂 but of cousre, I'll try to find a better way even yours is perfect.

[Anon]

but will it will have problem when some non-doublebyte characters mix with doublebyte characters.(e.g. english with chinese)?

[Anon]

ziong, u are right. I just got the same problem. It doesn't work with html tar within my chinese article. Such like XXXXXX<br>XX. 🙁

[ziong]

Maybe u can try this:
As u know BIG5 is doublebyte character and the first byte should be greater than 127.
so:

#################################
function addspace($str){
$new_str;
$i = 0;
while($i < strlen($str)){
$c = substr($str, $i, 1);
$new_str .= $c;

if (ord($c) > 127){ // 1st double byte find!
$i++;
$new_str .= substr($str, $i, 1)."&nbsp;"; // add 2nd byte and space
}
$i++;
}
return $new_str;
}

#################################
hope it is helpful.

[Anon]

Thank you very much ziong. It works perfect!!!!! 🙂