Re: Unicode Character Classes

"Ezra Gilbert" <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.comp.php.internationalization
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Woops,

By "this function," I meant the mb_ereg function.

-Ezra

"Ezra Gilbert" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:[email protected]...
> Does this function (which overloads the POSIX ereg function) support the
> unicode character class tables?  Meaning, do the POSIX character classes
> (alpha, digit, punct) map to the correct Unicode character classes (Ll,
Lu,
> Lt, and Lo etc.)?
>
> If not, is there any functionality in the mbstring extension for testing
> unicode character classes?  (This would be similar to the \pPROPERTY
option
> in Perl regex).
>
> Again, if not, how are people doing form validation on UTF-8 characters?
I
> am currently planning to run the perl command (from my php page) because
it
> seems perl has more support for unicode than PHP/mbstring does.
>
> Thanks,
> Ezra

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