[SOLVED] preg different language not working

[Eddy51]

I am trying to convert a script which I originally wrote in English to work in another languages. I had a request to write the script in Romanian so that's what I have been trying to do. Your help would be greatly appreciated I'm really stuck with this one. I bet the solution is quite simple.

 

This is a very strange problem which I just don't quite understand and has got me really stumped.

 

My script works fine with the English language file but the Romanian one doesn't work. The strange thing is;

[*]The Romanian text "Nu ai nimerit" is matched but the others are not

[*]If i write $text['duel_pattern']="/(Nimerit: (Braţul drept|Umărul drept|Braţul stâng)\s-\s\d{1,} Puncte de viaţă)|(Nu ai nimerit)/"; into my main script file all the Romanian text is matched correctly

[*]The English file works with no problems

 

The only thing I can think of it's something to do with the different characters used in the Romanian text.

 

Here is my script:

 

en.php

<?php
// Declare all text strings,
// in English.
$GLOBALS['text'] = array ('duel_pattern' => "/(Strike:\s(Right arm|Right shoulder|Left arm|Left shoulder|Head)\s-\s\d{1,3}\sHP)|(No hit)|(Total health points\s-\s\d{1,3}\sHP)/");
?>

 

ro.php

<?php
// Declare all text strings,
// in Romania.
$GLOBALS['text'] = array ('duel_pattern' => "/(Nimerit: (Braţul drept|Umărul drept|Braţul stâng)\s-\s\d{1,} Puncte de viaţă)|(Nu ai nimerit)/");
?>

 

MainScript.php

<?PHP
// Now include the appropriate language file:
require_once "./lang/{$lang}.php";

//Parse hits in to an array
preg_match_all($text['duel_pattern'],$str,$hits);
?>

[Eddy51]

SOLVED IT

 

I noticed when that when I saved my ro.php file some of the special characters didn't save correctly. I thought this was a bit strange so tried saving them on my mainscript.php file and they saved correctly. Hmm, well I thought what could be causing this so checked the page properties(Dreamweaver) and seen that the mainscript.php file was encoded in UTF-8 while the ro.php file is encoded in Western European. I changed the encoding on the ro.php page to UTF-8 and problem solved . All the special characters saved correctly and the preg worked how it was meant to.

 

Well like I first said it was to do with the different characters but was to do with there encoding.