the_excerpt() not working with non-English UTF-8

  • drkestrel

    (@drkestrel)


    17 years, 9 months ago

    I have a site that contains English and Traditional Chinese articles (posts) that are UTF-8 encoded.

    I found that although the_excerpt() seems to be working with English articles (i.e., displaying the first paragraph or some and then […]), with the Chinese articles, full text is shown.

    I am *guessing* that this is caused by behaviour within the wp_trim_excerpt function in the core wp-includes/functions-formatting.php file.

    Namely, the explode function may be does not quite work with UTF-8 encoded Chinese traditional text? It is a shame that at http://www.php.net/manual/en/ref.mbstring.php, there does not seem to be a multibyte version of explode function.

    Is this a WordPress Bug? How can I fix it (without hacking the core Word Press files)?

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