title: string length differ with other languages...not in English
body: <p>I used this coding to shorten my testimonials on my site, works perfectly!. But now I have a problem it is... I have given the opportunity to users add their testimonials from their own language. My coding is working properly with English characters but not with other languages' characters.... can anyone tell me why it is????</p>
  
  <pre><code>   &lt;?php
      $echo = $getFig["news_content"];
      if(strlen($echo) &lt;= 100){
      $bar = $echo;
      }if(strlen($echo) &gt; 100){
      $bar = substr($echo, 0, 101 )."&lt;ahref='#'&gt;Read More...&lt;/a&gt;";
      }
  
      echo htmlspecialchars($bar);
      ?&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>any comments are greatly appreciated.</p>
  
  <p>Thank you.  </p>