mbstring substitute

String operations on UTF8 without mbstring

[jonte]

My web hotel does not support the multibyte string functions (mbstring). Does anyone know of a good package/class which I can use instead? Basically, what I need is to be able to do strtoupper/lower, count characters, substrings, etc.

Thanks,
Jon

[coopster]

I've never tried this or researched it so I don't know if it will work, but what if you setlocale [php.net] first? Like I said, just an idea so you'll have to do some legwork here ;-) Let us know, I'm curious.