2008/2/27 Dotan Cohen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>:
> On 27/02/2008, Zoltán Németh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>  >
>  > sorry that's messed up a bit, as I typed it right here in my mailer ;)
>  >
>  >  preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)a\b.*/U', '$1A', 'whatever i want that hasa a
>  >  on the end');
>  >
>  >  greets
>  >
>  > Zoltán Németh
>  >
>
>  Thank you very much, Zoltan. Is there a known UTF-8 limitation?
>  Because it works fine for me in English letters (well, the opposite of
>  what I needed but I was able to work with it as which polar I start
>  with was arbitrary), but not in Hebrew letters. For instance, this
>  works as expected:
>
>  $test="aabacada aa a f";
>  $test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)a\b.*/U', '$1A', $test);
>  print $test; // PRINTS aabacadA aA a f
>
>  However, this does not:
>
>  $test="אאבאגאדא אא א ";
>  $test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)ע\b.*/U', '$1א', $test);
>  print $test; // PRINTS אאבאגאדא אא א
>
>  Am I misunderstanding something, or is there a UTF-8 problem, or
>  something else? Thank you for your assistance, it is much appreciated
>  and I'm learning what I can.
>
>
>
>  Dotan Cohen
>
>  http://what-is-what.com
>  http://gibberish.co.il
>  א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
>
>  A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
>  Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
>

The "a" character (97) is different from the "א" character (1488).

$a = html_entity_decode('&#1488;');
$test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)' . $a . '\b.*/U', '$1A', $test);

Will this work?
-- 
-Casey

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