Regex and cyrillic

[yaxar]

I am trying to check if a string is Cyrillic

but so far it is not working.

This is my code so far.

$str = 'ырөлоырөб';
if  (preg_match('{Script=Cyrillic}/iu*', $str)) {
echo 'it works';
}else {
echo 'it dosent work';
}

When i tried it on my server it outputed 'it dosent work'.

can you help me and find if their is anything wrong with the regex expression.

Thanks

[btherl]

The comments here look relevant (see below in the responses where someone discusses PHP and Cyrillic): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4907342/javascript-regexp-cyrillic-pattern

 

Also are you sure your cyrillic string is encoded in UTF8 when it goes into the preg_match()?

[yaxar]

The comments here look relevant (see below in the responses where someone discusses PHP and Cyrillic): http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4907342/javascript-regexp-cyrillic-pattern

The regex expression they gave there "[\s\p{IsCyrillic}]" outputs an error

Message: preg_match() [function.preg-match]: Compilation failed: unknown property name after \P or \p at offset 15

Also are you sure your Cyrillic string is encoded in UTF8 when it goes into the preg_match()?

And yes it is be Cyrillic.

 

Thanks

[btherl]

According to the comments on that site it's \p{Cyrillic}, and it will only work if PHP was compiled with a regexp library which supports that.

 

But you can still do it like this:

 

$pattern = "/[абвгдАБВГД]/";
preg_match($pattern, $str);

 

And if you list every possible cyrillic character in there, it'll work..

[petelko23]

see this post, there is an explanation how to use preg_match with non-Latin utf8 characters (Cyrilic, Arabic, Greek):

 

http://itworkarounds.blogspot.com/2011/08/validating-cyrillic-utf8-alphanumeric.html