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Standard PHP functions like strlen() cannot deal with Unicode strings properly out of the box. They provide mbstring extension and a few more tricks to handle it. So, the options for proper Unicode support are:

1. Wait for PHP6 to come.
2. Replace all text processing functions with their mb_ equivalents and make straight use of mbstring extension.
3. Create wrappers to use both standard and mbstring functions. Will produce a great overhead though.
4. Ignore it. Unicode must die and bla-bla-bla.