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Note Submitter: cebelab at gmail dot com ---- I noticed that in order to deal with UTF-8 texts, without having to recompile php with the PCRE UTF-8 flag enabled, you can just add the following sequence at the start of your pattern: (*UTF8) for instance : '#(*UTF8)[[:alnum:]]#' will return TRUE for 'é' where '#[[:alnum:]]#' will return FALSE found this very very useful tip after hours of research over the web directly in pcre website right here : http://www.pcre.org/pcre.txt there are many further informations about UTF-8 support in the lib hop that will help! -- cedric