How can I split a string with accents in PHP? -

i split hurgarian strings have accents. use code:

if(strlen($row['title'])<=20)     {         echo $row['title'];     }     else     {         echo substr($row['title'], 0, 17)." ...";     } 

i store these datas latin2_hungarian_ci coding in database , use charset in php files. both in php , html part:

header('content-type: text/html; charset=utf-8');  <meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"> 

but way if last character non english character (é,á,ö,ü,ó,ő,ú,ű,í) isn't appears well. against character appears � simbol. if don't use substr write whole tite out everíthing works good.

now example: végzet erekly� ... or Északi széless� ...

i can't understand substr, because in examples 1 of them write 15 characters , simbol, other 1 16 characters , simbol.

how can write out first x characters of them?

use iconv function change charset latin2 utf-8 , make mb_substr.

echo iconv("iso-8859-2","utf-8//translit", $string);