Problem with character decoding

Question

I’m using a function to limit the amount of characters that are displayed, something like this:

 function blabla ($string, $maxSize) {
    if (strlen($string) > $maxSize)
                $string = substr($string, 0, $maxSize) . ' [...]';
            return $string;
}

Only that it is returning some buged characters like: "title" is "title", but when I do not use the function the string comes normal, no buged characters. how can I fix this?

I’m using this in the header:

<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />

Answer 1

Use mb_substr() instead of substr() manual. An excellent answer in another context, but that fits your question: Problem using subst in text with PHP