note 68974 added to function.preg-match

Concerning the German umlauts (and other language-specific chars as accented letters etc.): If you use unicode (utf-8), you can match them easily with the unicode character property \pL (match any unicode letter) and the "u" modifier, so e.g. <?php preg_match("/[\w\pL]/u",$var); ?> would really match all "words" in $var - whether they contain umlauts or not. Took me a while to figure this out, so maybe this comment will safe the day for someone else :-) ---- Server IP: 212.124.37.9 Probable Submitter: 84.152.153.155 ---- X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.1 required=5.0 tests=DATE_MISSING,FROM_NO_LOWER autolearn=no version=2.64 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/68974 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68974/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68974/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68974/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68974/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68974/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68974/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/68974 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/68974 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php