substr() vs. mb_substr()

Hello,

I want to say that Smooth Slider is great for content slider. I found a small point maybe you can fix it in the next version of Smooth Slider. My site is Khmer language (it’s Unicode, UTF-8) and I set number of Maximum content size in Smooth Slider then it shows “Replacement Character” or “\uFFFD” or � and the end of cut content text in front-end. I had tried to find a solution to fix it and I found that mb_substr() can solve this problem.

Here’s what I changed to:
In DIR\smooth-slider\slider_versions\smooth_1.php : 131
$slider_excerpt = mb_substr($slider_content,0,$smooth_slider['content_chars'],'UTF-8');

Reference: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1973649/php-function-substr-problem

Cheers,
Sovichet

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