I used to try to get substrings of Chinese text and would get partial characters than came out as strange diamonds or squares…. until I found the mb_strcut() function! When using PHP, avoid using the substr() function, as it will often cut off Chinese and Japanese characters. For example: $text = ‘拿小锤锤的那个人好可爱的说，哈哈哈，生活太有爱了，加油加油了’; echo substr($text, 0,…