From c0adb54de44c290e604fbc8a9c3c865648e60748 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: martinlanghoff <martinlanghoff>
Date: Thu, 28 Sep 2006 00:10:23 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Allow Chinese/Japanese UTF-8 strings to be truncated at
 character

boundaries instead of word boundaries. (fix MDL-5378)
---
 lib/moodlelib.php | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/lib/moodlelib.php b/lib/moodlelib.php
index a6b1d975c7f..218e6de3f8b 100644
--- a/lib/moodlelib.php
+++ b/lib/moodlelib.php
@@ -5608,6 +5608,9 @@ function shorten_text($text, $ideal=30) {
                        if ($char == '.' or $char == ' ') {
                            $truncate = $i+1;
                            break 2;
+                       } else if (ord($char) >= 0xE0) {
+                           $truncate = $i;
+                           break 2;
                        }
                    }
                    $count++;