Question: ```
<input type="text" id="title" name="title" size="50" maxlength="110" />

```

You see, the maxlength is 110, but I was shocked when I found that I input 114 characters when I used 

```
echo strlen($title);

```

Any idea?

By the way, what I input was **Japanese text**. What's wrong?

Answer: 
Japanese text is most probably using a multibyte character encoding. Therefore you should make use of [mb\_strlen()](http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.mb-strlen.php). 

Best wishes,
Fabian
maxlength is just a browser lock but it's bypassable in any kind of way including by the unicode encoding.
You better provide a server side control for this