Re: preg for unicode strings?
| From: | Niels Ganser | Date: | Sun, 06 Nov 2005 01:11:04 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: preg for unicode strings? | ||
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Andy,
you might want to check out
http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html
Please note two things while using the described syntax:
1. You have to additionally use the u modificator.
2. While \p{Ll} for instance works in PHP, \p{Lowercase_Letter} doesn't.
Regards,
Niels
> Hi List
>
> I am doing some data validation and the following regexp fails
>
> [\W]
>
> When using characters like £ or €
>
> Obviously because they are technically more then one character, even
> though they are only displayed as one.
>
> The script is encoded in UTF-8
>
> Anybody know a fix for this?
>
> With kind regards
>
>
> Andy