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[Adam Maccabee Trachtenberg]

On Tue, 16 Dec 2003, Marc Antony Vose wrote:

> 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?

PHP does not have native Unicode support. However, you should check
out the mbstring extension:

http://www.php.net/mbstring

-adam

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