Re: [PHP] RegEx to check for non-Latin characters

2008-11-15 Thread Behzad
Thanks everyone. I guess I find the answer: *// return true if the $str ONLY consists of Arabic characters and space-character public function isArabicString($str) { return preg_match('/^([\p{Arabic}]|\s)*$/u', $str); } * PHP 5.1.x or higher is required. @see: http://www.re

Re: [PHP] RegEx to check for non-Latin characters

2008-11-15 Thread Yeti
Hi Behzad, I would try a different approach ... EXAMPLE (UTF-8): http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd";> http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";> Persia '; } function mbStringToArray ($string, $encoding) { $strlen = mb_strlen($string); while ($strlen) { $array[] = mb_s

Re: [PHP] RegEx to check for non-Latin characters

2008-11-15 Thread Richard Heyes
> For a Form Validation process, I need a function to avoid Latin characters > to be provided as the first or last name. Since we expect our users to > enter their personal info in Persian. > > Do you know any regular expression to provide this functionality? > 1) Regex to check whether there are L