how to get unicode character from a unicode string in php

Question

I want to get a single unicode chatacter from a unicode string.

for example:- $str = \"पर्वत निर्माणों में कोनसा संचलन कार्य करता है\"; echo $str[0];

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Answer 1

PHP's default $str[x] notation operates on bytes, so you're just getting the first part of a multibyte character. To extract entire encoding aware byte sequences for whole characters, you need to use mb_substr.

Also see What Every Programmer Absolutely, Positively Needs To Know About Encodings And Character Sets To Work With Text.