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+<?
+
+if (!function_exists('mb_strlen'))
+{
+ // from Typo3
+ // author Martin Kutschker <martin.t.kutschker@blackbox.net>
+ function mb_strlen($str, $encoding="utf-8")
+ {
+ if($encoding != "utf-8")
+ { return -1; }
+
+ $n=0;
+
+ for($i=0; isset($str{$i}); $i++)
+ {
+ $c = ord($str{$i});
+
+ if (!($c & 0x80)) // single-byte (0xxxxxx)
+ $n++;
+
+ elseif (($c & 0xC0) == 0xC0) // multi-byte starting byte (11xxxxxx)
+ $n++;
+ }
+
+ return $n;
+ }
+}
+
+if (!function_exists('mb_substr'))
+{
+ // from Typo3
+ // author Martin Kutschker <martin.t.kutschker@blackbox.net>
+ function mb_substr($str, $start, $len=null, $encoding="utf-8")
+ {
+ if($encoding != "utf-8")
+ { return -1; }
+
+ $byte_start = utf8_char2byte_pos($str,$start);
+
+ if ($byte_start === false)
+ return false; // $start outside string length
+
+ $str = substr($str,$byte_start);
+
+ if ($len != null)
+ {
+ $byte_end = utf8_char2byte_pos($str,$len);
+
+ if ($byte_end === false) // $len outside actual string length
+ return $str;
+ else
+ return substr($str,0,$byte_end);
+ }
+
+ else return $str;
+ }
+
+ function utf8_char2byte_pos($str,$pos)
+ {
+ $n = 0; // number of characters found
+ $p = abs($pos); // number of characters wanted
+
+ if ($pos >= 0)
+ {
+ $i = 0;
+ $d = 1;
+ } else {
+ $i = strlen($str)-1;
+ $d = -1;
+ }
+
+ for( ; isset($str{$i}) && $n<$p; $i+=$d)
+ {
+ $c = (int)ord($str{$i});
+
+ if (!($c & 0x80)) // single-byte (0xxxxxx)
+ $n++;
+ elseif (($c & 0xC0) == 0xC0) // multi-byte starting byte (11xxxxxx)
+ $n++;
+ }
+
+ if (!isset($str{$i}))
+ return false; // offset beyond string length
+
+ if ($pos >= 0)
+ {
+ // skip trailing multi-byte data bytes
+ while ((ord($str{$i}) & 0x80) && !(ord($str{$i}) & 0x40))
+ { $i++; }
+ } else {
+ // correct offset
+ $i++;
+ }
+
+ return $i;
+ }
+}