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[Marc Antony Vose]

hi there:

in my scripts, i generally do a simple little check like this if i 
want to make sure something was inputted in a field, or in this case 
i am looping through an array and removing any index that lacks at 
least some text:

	if( !ereg("[[:alnum:]]+",$desc_contents[$x]) ){
		array_splice($desc_contents,$x,1);
	}

anyway, that is enough for anything i want to do in english.

however, i am now dealing with some korean and bulgarian text, and 
this fails, because those characters are not part of "alnum".  at the 
moment, i've replaced it with a check of "strlen($text)>0", but if 
the text was ";@ #^&*" it would pass the test.

so, i'm interested in how people deal with this sort of situation?

i need to check that at least some valid characters (i.e., for human 
readable content) were inputted into a form, or exist in some 
variable, but that will work for any language in the world, when the 
text in question is known to be unicode.

cheers,

-- 
Marc Antony Vose
http://www.suzerain.com/

They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary 
safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.
-- Benjamin Franklin