Title: korean character problem
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# korean character problem

 *  Resolved [yunaus](https://wordpress.org/support/users/yunaus/)
 * (@yunaus)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/korean-character-problem/)
 * Hi,
    First of all, thanks for your plugin. I tried lots of facebook plugin and
   finally I found the right one for my site. However, I am afraid I got a problem
   with using Korean character. (Korean character use 2 bytes so it causes a problem
   with omitting the character – I mean “Remove characters beyond limit” part. )
   It shows special unrecognizable characters instead of ‘…’.
 * So I tried to figure out what’s wrong and I got the solution on the internet.
   
   It worked when I changed substr() to mb_substr() in the line 476(below the comment:
   remove characters beyond limit) in the file – [/ik-facebook/ik_facebook.php].
 * If you have another better idea, would please consider this problem for the next
   upgrade of your plugin? Otherwise I will have to change them again, whenever 
   I update your plugin.
 * Thanks.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/ik-facebook/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/ik-facebook/)

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 *  Plugin Author [richardgabriel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardgabriel/)
 * (@richardgabriel)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/korean-character-problem/#post-4651687)
 * Hey Yunaus!
 * Thanks for the feedback!
 * This is an interesting issue, and I appreciate you reporting it. I can definitely
   add in your code, with a quick check to be sure the user has the mb string library
   installed, in my next update.
 * Please let me know if you need anything else.
 * Thanks!
    Richard
 *  [isaoyoshikoshi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/isaoyoshikoshi/)
 * (@isaoyoshikoshi)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/korean-character-problem/#post-4651886)
 * Hi,
 * One vote for yunaus’ suggestion!
    Many users who use 2 bytes character will be
   happy 😉
 * Thanks for your great job, Richard.
 *  Plugin Author [richardgabriel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/richardgabriel/)
 * (@richardgabriel)
 * [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/korean-character-problem/#post-4651901)
 * Hello!
 * Just wanted to let you know that this has been addressed in the most recent update.
   Please let us know if we can help with anything else!
 * Best,
    Richard

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 * Last activity: [12 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/korean-character-problem/#post-4651901)
 * Status: resolved