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Calculates the arabic string length in PHP v1
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arabicstringlength
function arStringLength($str)
{
if(mb_detect_encoding($str) == 'UTF-8') {
$str = utf8_decode($str);
}
return strlen($str);
}
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Please use the function and feed me back

@w3programer
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استااااااااااااااااذ

@angelisma
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كبيييييييير

@mgomma
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mgomma commented Mar 5, 2015

That piece of code means any text encoded in utf-8 not Arabic language

If used for English text will return the same result whatever the language

@khalidco
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This function is terrible at detecting the exact encoding. It's unreliable! It would, for example, give you ASCII when it should give you windows-1256 and thus causing you a big headache, if you want to post Arabic text on Twitter.

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