As you may know str_replace does not work when you pass multi-byte strings to $search parameter, so below is an equivalent mb_replace() to str_replace(). Note that $search parameter must be an array.
function mb_replace($search, $replace, $subject)
{
$size = mb_strlen($subject, 'UTF-8');
if(!is_array($search))
{
$search = array($search);
}
for($i = 0; $i < sizeOf($search); $i++)
{
for($j = 0; $j < $size; $j++)
{
$ch = mb_substr($subject, $j, 1, 'UTF-8');
if($ch == $search[$i])
{
$subject = mb_substr($subject, 0, $j, 'UTF-8').$replace[$i].mb_substr($subject, $j + 1, $size - $j, 'UTF-8');
}
}
}
return $subject;
}
