Thierry, I ended up using your first Regex example—works great!
It is very good to know about \p{} matches—everything from Arabic to Yi. That
may come in handy later.
Thanks,
Peter
> On Jul 17, 2017, at 8:54 PM, Thierry Douez via use-livecode
> <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote:
>
> 2017-07-18 3:53 GMT+02:00 Thierry Douez <th.do...@gmail.com>:
>
>>
>>> I want to know if this data contains Chinese characters
>>>
>>> Thanks for suggestions!
>>>
>>> Peter Bogdanoff
>>>
>>>
>> Hi Peter,
>>
>
>
> Ok, back after my second morning coffee :)
>
> A better way to check for Chinese code points would be
> something like that (not tested and never used myself) :
>
>
> function testForChinese utf8Text
> return matchText( utf8Text, "\p{Han}")
> end testForChinese
>
> Of course, it won't work with htmlText, but straight with
> the text of a field, assuming it's coded in UTF8 !!!
>
>
> HTH,
>
> Thierry
>
>
>>
>> Mmm, not sure you'll get *only* Chinese characters,
>> but at least any entity with only 5 numbers.
>>
>> This function returns true if find any, false otherwise:
>>
>> function testForChinese T
>> xt
>> -- any htmltext
>> return matchText(
>> Txt
>> , "&#\d{5};")
>> end testForChinese
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Thierry
>>
>
>
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