Bug #54517 [Opn->Bgs]: word boundary \b fails with Scandinavian alphabet

Edit report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54517&edit=1 ID: 54517 Updated by: cataphract@php.net Reported by: antti dot nylund at gmail dot com Summary: word boundary \b fails with Scandinavian alphabet -Status: Open +Status: Bogus Type: Bug Package: Regexps related Operating System: Linux PHP Version: 5.3.6 Block user comment: N Private report: N New Comment: Sorry, but your problem does not imply a bug in PHP itself. For a list of more appropriate places to ask for help using PHP, please visit http://www.php.net/support.php as this bug system is not the appropriate forum for asking support questions. Due to the volume of reports we can not explain in detail here why your report is not a bug. The support channels will be able to provide an explanation for you. Thank you for your interest in PHP. Prints 0 with the u flag, as expected since at least 5.3.4 when the PCRE_UCP started being used when u is present. Previous Comments: ------------------------------------------------------------------------ [2011-04-12 21:19:35] antti dot nylund at gmail dot com Description: ------------ --- From manual page: http://www.php.net/function.preg-match-all --- Word preceding ö ä or å will not be matched/counted. Tried setting local with setlocale(LC_ALL, "fi_FI"); Test script: --------------- $teststring = "Talvivaate on talvikäyttöön ja kesävaate on kesäkäyttöön."; preg_match_all("/\bvaate\b/i",$teststring,$keywords,PREG_OFFSET_CAPTURE); $rows = count($keywords[0],0); echo $rows; Expected result: ---------------- Should print 2 Actual result: -------------- Prints out 1 ------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- Edit this bug report at http://bugs.php.net/bug.php?id=54517&edit=1