Re: Unicode escape sequences in PHP?

[email protected] (Tomas Kuliavas) Mon, 28 Apr 2008 15:19:02 +0300
Newsgroups php.i18n
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Hi all, I have a question regarding unicode character escape sequences:
> 
> I need to match char 0x2022 (bullet).
> 
> PHP's \x does not support multibyte chars.
> PCRE (e.g. preg_match) supports \u2022, but only on platforms where the
> PCRE lib has been compiled with a certain flag.
> 
> Is there an escape sequence I can use with mb_ereg that will match this
> character?
> 
> Thanks,
> Frank

\xE2\x80\xA2 for text in UTF-8.