php substr() function with utf-8 leaves � marks at the end

Question

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Answer 1

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<?php
if(mb_strlen($post->post_content,'UTF-8')>200){
    $content= str_replace('\n', '', mb_substr(strip_tags($post-> post_content), 
                          0, 200,'UTF-8'));
    echo $content.'…';
}else{
    echo str_replace('\n', '', strip_tags($post->post_content));
}
?>