--- get-recent-comments-2.0.4.5.php.orig	Fri Nov 14 17:30:13 2008
+++ get-recent-comments-2.0.4.5.php	Fri Nov 14 21:22:15 2008
@@ -1069,6 +1069,7 @@
 {
 	// kjgrc_log("kjgrc_get_comments2 $caller");
 	// echo "kjgrc_get_comments2 $requested_comment_type $caller<br>";
+	mb_regex_encoding(mb_internal_encoding());
 	global $wpdb;
 	$batch_number = 0;
 	$number_of_comments = 0;
@@ -1302,8 +1303,8 @@
 			$trackback_title = preg_replace("/^<strong>(.+?)<\/strong>.*/s","$1",$comment->comment_content);
 			$trackback_title = strip_tags($trackback_title);
 			$trackback_title = preg_replace("/[\n\t\r]/"," ",$trackback_title);
+			$trackback_title = mb_ereg_replace('([^\s]{'.$chars_per_word.'})','\\1 ', $trackback_title); // split long words
                		$trackback_title = preg_replace("/\s{2,}/"," ",$trackback_title);
-               		$trackback_title = wordwrap($trackback_title,$chars_per_word,' ',1);
 										
 			$comment_excerpt = preg_replace("/^<strong>.+?<\/strong>/","",$comment->comment_content,1);
 			$comment_author = $comment->comment_author;
@@ -1317,8 +1318,8 @@
 		$comment_excerpt = strip_tags(wptexturize($comment_excerpt));
 
 		$comment_excerpt = preg_replace("/[\n\t\r]/"," ",$comment_excerpt); // whitespace into 1 blank
+		$comment_excerpt = mb_ereg_replace('([^\s]{'.$chars_per_word.'})','\\1 ', $comment_excerpt); // split long words
 		$comment_excerpt = preg_replace("/\s{2,}/"," ",$comment_excerpt); // whitespace into 1 blank
-                $comment_excerpt = wordwrap($comment_excerpt,$chars_per_word,' ',1);
 
 		if ($trackback_title == '')
 			$trackback_title = $comment_excerpt;
@@ -1558,17 +1559,21 @@
 
 function kjgrc_excerpt ($text,$chars_per_comment,$chars_per_word,$tag,$output)
 {
-	$length = strlen(str_replace($tag,"",strip_tags($output)));
+	$length = mb_strlen(str_replace($tag,"",strip_tags($output)));
 	$length = $chars_per_comment - $length;
 	$length = $length -2; // we will add three dots at the end
 	if ($length < 0) $length = 0;
-	if (strlen($text) > $length) {
-		$text = substr($text,0,$length);
-		$text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));
-		// last word exceeds max word length:
-		if ((strlen($text) - strrpos($text,' ')) > $chars_per_word) {
-			$text = substr($text,0,strlen($text)-3);
-		} 
+	if (mb_strlen($text) > $length) {
+		$text = mb_substr($text,0,$length);
+		if ((mb_strlen($text) - mb_strrpos($text,' ')) < $chars_per_word-1) {
+			$text = mb_substr($text,0,mb_strrpos($text,' '));
+		}
+		// last word has max word length:
+                if ((mb_strlen($text) - mb_strrpos($text,' ')) > $chars_per_word-2)
+		{
+                        $text = mb_substr($text,0,mb_strlen($text)-3);
+                } 
+
 		$text = $text . "...";
 	}
 	#$text = "[EXCERPT]: '$text'";