#41239 [Bgs]: Special chars not handled as alpha numeric

ID: 41239 User updated by: rene dot stabingis at gmail dot com Reported By: rene dot stabingis at gmail dot com Status: Bogus Bug Type: *Regular Expressions Operating System: Linux 2.6.13.2 (Debian 3.1) PHP Version: 5.2.1 New Comment: I'm sorry but setlocale(LC_ALL, 'de_DE'); has no effect. Same with an explicit set of the german or german/european charset. (btw same behaviour on a freebsd4 machine) Until now i have only seen problems with this on ubuntu machines running with utf8 standard charset Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-04-30 10:46:50] derick@php.net You need to use the correct locale, see setlocale() documentation. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2007-04-30 10:21:25] rene dot stabingis at gmail dot com Description: ------------ This code should delete all non-alphanumeric signs (except spaces). If you have latin special chars like "ü", on the linux machine they are deleted. On a win environment using same php version they are kept as alnum. The deb machine runs with ISO-8859-1 charset. Reproduce code: --------------- $somePhrase = 'i don\'t know why, but many people know über'; echo preg_replace('/[^[:alnum:][:space:]]/', '', $somePhrase); Expected result: ---------------- i dont know why but many people know über Actual result: -------------- i dont know why but many people know ber ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/?id=41239&edit=1