Dynamic Flash

This is just a quickie for anyone who's battling with the UTF-8 support (or lack thereof) in PHP4.

According to the online docs the PCRE family of functions can be made UTF-8 aware by adding a u modifier to the pattern you're using. Since the standard explode function doesn't support UTF-8, you might think of using the preg_split function like this to split a UTF-8 string into an array of characters:

Unfortunately it seems that preg_split is the only PCRE function that doesn't support the u modifier. Instead, you'll have to use preg_match_all like this to get the same effect: