regex - Matching Unicode letter characters in PCRE/PHP -
i'm trying write reasonably permissive validator names in php, , first attempt consists of following pattern:
// unicode letters, apostrophe, hyphen, space $namepattern = "/^([\\p{l}'\\- ])+$/";
this passed call preg_match()
. far can tell, works vanilla ascii alphabet, seems trip on spicier characters Ă or 张.
is there wrong pattern itself? perhaps i'm expecting \p{l}
more work think does?
or have way input being passed in? i'm not sure if it's relevant, did make sure specify utf8 encoding on form page.
i think problem simpler that: forgot specify u
modifier. unicode character properties only available in utf-8 mode.
your regex should be:
// unicode letters, apostrophe, hyphen, space $namepattern = '/^[-\' \p{l}]+$/u';
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