note 105688 added to function.ctype-alpha

I'm not having the success that Tyrunur is having with UTF-8. For me, on PHP 5.3.5, it only seems to work when both the locale and the string are ISO-8859-1. Thus: <?php //script file itself its UTF-8 $utf8_string = 'jérômecaractèresdelachaîne'; $iso_string = iconv('UTF-8', 'ISO-8859-1', $utf8_string); //or: //$iso_string = mb_convert_encoding($utf8_string, 'ISO-8859-1', 'UTF-8'); setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR.utf8'); var_dump(nl_langinfo(CODESET)); //gives UTF-8 var_dump(ctype_alpha($utf8_string)); //gives FALSE setlocale(LC_ALL, 'fr_FR'); var_dump(nl_langinfo(CODESET)); //gives ISO-8859-1 var_dump(ctype_alpha($iso_string)); //gives TRUE ?> My ctype_alnum() also seems to dislike UTF-8... ---- Server IP: 92.48.74.199 Probable Submitter: 86.148.73.218 ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.ctype-alpha.php Edit -- https://master.php.net/note/edit/105688 Del: integrated -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105688/integrated Del: useless -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105688/useless Del: bad code -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105688/bad+code Del: spam -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105688/spam Del: non-english -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105688/non-english Del: in docs -- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105688/in+docs Del: other reasons-- https://master.php.net/note/delete/105688 Reject -- https://master.php.net/note/reject/105688 Search -- https://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php