note 105324 added to function.preg-match

You can use the following code to detect non-latin (Cyrilic, Arabic, Greek...) characters: <?php preg_match("/^[a-zA-Z\p{Cyrillic}0-9\s\-]+$/u", "ABC abc 1234 АБВ абв"); ?> See the explanation here: http://itworkarounds.blogspot.com/2011/08/validating-cyrillic-utf8-alphanumeric.html The full list of alphabets can be found here: http://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.unicode.php#102756 ---- Server IP: 69.147.83.197 Probable Submitter: 95.180.200.222 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-match.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/105324 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105324/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105324/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105324/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105324/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105324/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105324/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105324 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/105324 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php