--- ../tags/2.0.2/get-recent-comments.php	2009-03-09 08:36:21.000000000 +0100
+++ get-recent-comments.php	2009-03-26 23:28:15.000000000 +0100
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
 <?php
 /*
 Plugin Name: Get Recent Comments
-Version: 2.0.2
+Version: 2.0.3
 Plugin URI: http://blog.jodies.de/archiv/2004/11/13/recent-comments/
 Author: Krischan Jodies
 Author URI: http://blog.jodies.de
@@ -896,7 +896,7 @@
 
 function kjgrc_cache($type)
 {
-	global $wpdb,$kjgrc_cache;
+	global $wpdb,$kjgrc_cache,$kjgrc_we_are_a_widget,$kjgrc_widget_args;
 	$use_cache = FALSE;
 	if (kjgrc_use_cache()) {
 		$use_cache = TRUE;
@@ -914,7 +914,16 @@
 			// kjgrc_log("write new cache");
 			$kjgrc_cache[comments] =  base64_encode(kjgrc_create_recent_comments());
 			$kjgrc_cache[trackbacks] = base64_encode(kjgrc_create_recent_trackbacks());
-			update_option('kjgrc_cache',$kjgrc_cache);
+			if ($kjgrc_we_are_a_widget == TRUE) {
+				extract($kjgrc_widget_args);
+				if ($before_title == '%BEG_OF_TITLE%') {
+					// Don't update cache now.
+				} else {
+					update_option('kjgrc_cache',$kjgrc_cache);
+				}
+			} else {
+					update_option('kjgrc_cache',$kjgrc_cache);
+			}
 		}
 		$kjgrc_cache[comments] = kjgrc_prepare_cache(base64_decode($kjgrc_cache[comments]));
 		$kjgrc_cache[trackbacks] = kjgrc_prepare_cache(base64_decode($kjgrc_cache[trackbacks]));
@@ -1041,6 +1050,7 @@
 {
 	// 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;
@@ -1259,8 +1269,8 @@
 			$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;
@@ -1274,8 +1284,8 @@
 		$comment_excerpt = strip_tags(wptexturize($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 = $comment_excerpt;
@@ -1304,7 +1314,7 @@
 			if ($md5_cache && array_key_exists($comment->comment_author,$md5_cache)) {
 				$gravatar_md5 = $md5_cache[$comment->comment_author];
 			} else {
-				$gravatar_md5 = md5($comment->comment_author_email);
+				$gravatar_md5 = md5(strtolower($comment->comment_author_email));
 				$md5_cache[$comment->comment_author_email] = $gravatar_md5; 
 			}
 			$comment_gravatar_url = "http://www.gravatar.com/avatar.php?" .
@@ -1334,6 +1344,7 @@
 		$post_counter = $post->comment_count;
 
 		$author_url = $comment->comment_author_url;
+		$author_url_href = "a href=\"$comment->comment_author_url\"";
 		if ($author_url == "http://")
 			$author_url = "";
 		if (empty($author_url) || $author_url == "http://")
@@ -1486,17 +1497,21 @@
 
 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'";