Fredrik Malmgren

<p>With Easy Excerpt your can manage your posts excerpt and change excerpt length, ending and “read more”-link from WordPress admin.</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<ol>
<li>Go to ‘Easy Excerpt’ under ‘Settings’ menu</li>
<li>Change the options of your choice</li>
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Easy Excerpt

Manage your posts excerpt with Easy Excerpt. Change excerpt length, ending and "read more"-link from WordPress admin.

BettyJJ

<h4>Main features of the plugin:</h4>
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<li>It supports multi-byte language (such as Chinese). It will not produce gibberish as some other excerpt plugins do.</li>
<li>The html tags in the original posts, i.e., the font styles, colors, hyperlinks, pictures and such are preserved in the excerpt.</li>
<li>For better readability, it displays 300 characters for each post on the homepage and 150 characters for each post on archive pages.</li>
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WP-UTF8-Excerpt

This plugin generates a better excerpt for multi-byte language users (Chinese, for example). Besides, it keeps the html tags in the excerpt.

Easy Excerpt vs WP-UTF8-Excerpt