On Sat, November 5, 2005 3:02 pm, Andy Pieters wrote: > 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?
You could use http://php.net/utf8_decode on it first, and then validate... I dunno if that would allow any nasties to get past, but it least it should validate the input as "legal" I think... I always feel overwhelmed by all this multi-lingual character-encoding multi-byte stuff, frankly. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
