how to get unicode character from a unicode string in php

Question

I want to get a single unicode chatacter from a unicode string.

for example:- $str = "????? ????????? ??? ????? ????? ????? ???? ??"; echo $str[0];

output is:- ?

but i want to get char '?' at 0 index of the string.

plz help me how to get char '?' instead of ? .

Answer 1

As @deceze writes, you need to use mb_substr in order to get a character, instead of just a byte. In addition, you need to set the internal encoding with mb_internal_encoding. Assuming that the encoding of your .php file is UTF-8, the following should work:

  mb_internal_encoding('utf-8');
  $str = "????? ????????? ??? ????? ????? ????? ???? ??"; 
  echo mb_substr($str, 0, 1);