Posted by Niels Ganser on 11/06/05 03:11

Andy,

you might want to check out
http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html

Please note two things while using the described syntax:
1. You have to additionally use the u modificator.
2. While \p{Ll} for instance works in PHP, \p{Lowercase_Letter} doesn't.

Regards,
Niels


> Hi List
>
> I am doing some data validation and the following regexp fails
>
> [\W]
>
> When using characters like £ or €
>
> Obviously because they are technically more then one character, even
> though they are only displayed as one.
>
> The script is encoded in UTF-8
>
> Anybody know a fix for this?
>
> With kind regards
>
>
> Andy

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