(PHP 5 >= 5.3.0, PECL intl >= 1.0.0)
grapheme_substr — Return part of a string
Procedural style
$string
   , int $start
   [, int $length
  ] )Return part of a string
stringThe input string. Must be valid UTF-8.
startStart position in default grapheme units. If $start is non-negative, the returned string will start at the $start'th position in $string, counting from zero. If $start is negative, the returned string will start at the $start'th grapheme unit from the end of string.
length
       Length in grapheme units.
       If $length  is given and is positive, the string returned will contain
       at most $length grapheme units beginning from $start (depending on the 
       length of string). If $length is given and is negative, then
       that many grapheme units will be omitted from the end of string (after the
       start position has been calculated when a start is negative). If $start
       denotes a position beyond this truncation, FALSE will be returned. 
      
Returns the extracted part of $string.
| Version | Description | 
|---|---|
| 5.4 | 
        If length is given and positive and the
        argument string is shorter than the specified length, all the rest of
        the string according to start parameter is
        returned. Previously, FALSE was returned. 
        | 
      
Example #1 grapheme_substr() example
<?php
$char_a_ring_nfd = "a\xCC\x8A";  // 'LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE' (U+00E5) normalization form "D"
$char_o_diaeresis_nfd = "o\xCC\x88"; // 'LATIN SMALL LETTER O WITH DIAERESIS' (U+00F6) normalization form "D"
print urlencode(grapheme_substr( "ao" . $char_a_ring_nfd . "bc" . $char_o_diaeresis_nfd . "O", 2, -1 ));
?>
The above example will output:
a%CC%8Abco%CC%88