Thread: Support of multibyte characters count if shortening titles containing umlauts

Support of multibyte characters count if shortening titles containing umlauts

It would be great if the functions
strlen(get_the_title()) >= 45
and
substr(get_the_title(), 0, 45)

could be replaced by
mb_strlen()
and
mb_substr()

in order to support multibyte characters count to avoid misspelled characters like this


if the title contains umlauts or special characters.

Hi, I am wondering if the developers are still checking this forum?

I believe they do they are just busy keeping a pace with the releases.

Thanks for the reply. Replacing the function is a very small task but a huge improvement for international sites. It only requires that the developers are reading this forum. Actually I am not really sure about this

I will directly refer this thread to the developer for a possible fix.

Whoa. Wait a second here. Does this mean that currently ClassiPress does not support multibyte characterse or unicode?? For example, Japanese or other Asian characters? Please say this isn't so. Can we get a confirmation on this.

Classipress does support umlauts and other utf8 characters but the titles in the tab view arecut after a certain count of characters. And the present function strlen(get_the_title()) >= 45 does not count multbyte characters (such as umlauts) as one and if a multibyte character is at the cutting point you will get strange signs as seen in the screenshot above.

The function mb_strlen(get_the_title()) >= 45 counts multibyte characters as one and no misspelling will happen anymore. If classipress claims to be used in 18+ languages it should use the proper functions. It's not a big task to replace the function. Trying to get the attention of the developers seems to be far more difficult ...

Thanks for pointing this out bluecafe. Hopefully the moderators can raise this so it can be put into the official 3.1 release before the end of this month.

I agree on the communication issue with the development team. It seems that recently there has been even less of dialogue between customers and the team (David and Seth). I assume they are busy working on the many different themes but I cannot help but think they have spread themselves too thin.

Did the developer team get notice of this? It's really a small task and not a big effort but would be very helpful for international sites.

A ticket was logged for this, so it should be included in either 3.0.5 or 3.1. Thanks.