Posted by Daniel Tryba on 06/17/05 02:18

R <ruthless@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> if (preg_match('/^[a-z]{2,10}$/', 'aezztest'))
> ^^^^ wow google did some
> magic here ;-)
> polish characters
> meant to be here (in place of 'aezztest'

Just in case you didn't know: Google's G2 thingy is extremly borken.

> what ever ;-) the problem is that this regex isn't working...

That's because [a-z] matches is the equivalanet to [\x61-\x7a]

If you want to match lowercase extended characters in iso8859-2
encoding, you need to generate a character class like:
[\xb1\xb3\xb9-\xbc]
(and lots more I guess).

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