Hi The award for providing the correct solution to this problem is $30. I have one problem on splliting Japanese characters. I noticed that using the Japanese language to be passed in a form, it removes all the blank spaces, so for example, if you pass these words i a japanese: "this is an example", it outputs: "thisisanexample" once passed?? but there is a code in php that splits them, since japanese language uses MB characters, right? then using the MB characters? How will I differentiate a character from other characters in a sentence? this is the case: in a form: if in japanese, you passed "this is an example" and outputs "thisisanexample", i need to split this to: split 1: this split 2: is split 3: an split 4: example I have used the mb_split() but was unsucessful in this function: mb_split(string pattern, string string[, int limit]); i tried to play on that function, but im unlucky.. my problem here is the "string pattern" ... i cant figure out what is the string pattern that separates one character from the other.. ?