Laravel 'Str' helper class doesn't work with Unicode

Asked Jul 27 '21 at 20:31

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Since I'm new to laravel, I'm trying codes from the documentation. I got to the helper classes.

When in my controller I wrote the code bellow,

        $a='გიორგი გოგიავა';
        $b="George Gogiava";
        echo Str::length($a), '</br>';
        echo Str::padLeft($b,  20, '*'), '</br>';
        echo Str::of($a)->padLeft(40, '*');

I got the following answer:

******George Gogiava გიორგი გოგიავა 14

Firstly, I'm surprised that he printed the length at the end, and secondly, as you can see, the function does not work with Unicode.

I am waiting for an explanation about this and how to solve it?

asked Jul 27 '21 at 20:31

Leo Garsia

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Is `$a` not 14 characters long? Also the 14 being at the end indicates that at some point things switched to Right-to-left – apokryfos Jul 27 '21 at 20:39
@apokryfos: Right-to-left? I don't think so. padLeft doesn't work. – Leo Garsia Jul 27 '21 at 20:46
it looks like it worked to me. there's stars on the left of $b – apokryfos Jul 27 '21 at 20:55
@apokryfos but not on the left side of $a – Leo Garsia Jul 27 '21 at 21:03
Where does it say it works with Unicode? They are just accessing the old PHP functions [on the backend](https://github.com/illuminate/support/blob/master/Str.php#L466). – miken32 Jul 27 '21 at 21:36
Yes it seems that `str_pad` doesn't work with unicode . There's [an alternative](https://stackoverflow.com/a/14773775/487813) you can implement yourself – apokryfos Jul 28 '21 at 04:34
use Str; in top of controller – Rakesh kumar Oad Jul 28 '21 at 07:50

Laravel 'Str' helper class doesn't work with Unicode

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