Hi, I have problem with chinese character. It seems it’s failed on character count. tried with: <?php echo str::excerpt( $post->text()->kirbytext(), 200, false); ?> and still no luck. Here is the sample text: 弗洛雷斯有许多有趣的村庄.你不仅可以看到当地人如何生活以及邻里之间和访客之间如何互动，还可以看到当地文化是如何保护和保存下来的.你也可以从他们那里学习到如何与自然保持平衡.…

I think this happens because of line #364 getkirby/kirby/blob/master/vendor/getkirby/toolkit/lib/str.php#L364 * Creates an excerpt of a string * It removes all html tags first and then uses str::short * * @param string $string The string to be shortened * @param int $chars The …

No it’s not about character length. Put any value and result will be the same. <?php echo excerpt( $post->text()->kirbytext(), 200); ?> is not work too. Well someone have the problem before and seems it’s not resolved yet. https://github.com/getkirby/kirby/issues/259 Any suggestion workaround f…

I didn’t say it was about character length. For me the result is different if I test with 100, 200 or 400 chars. But what I said was that the function looks for the next space AFTER 100, 200 or whatever number of characters. If you replace line 364 with this: return $chars == 0 ? $string : static:…

Oh yes thank You. It work like a charm. Really appreciate for Your help.

Kirby Excerpt Failed on Chinese Character

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texnixe April 29, 2017, 1:17pm 6

Please keep in mind that this change will then cut words in other languages right in the middle, so you may want to create a custom function you only use for Chinese or similar languages.

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