Thanks, I'll have a look at it. I do want to allow some chars so I'm trying to replace them like this : $post_text=str_replace(chr(146),"'",$post_text); or $post_text=str_replace("?","'",$post_text); However, it seems that str_replace does not actually replace the chars cause they still end up in the output. any idea? berber -----Original Message----- From: news [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Abdullah Ramazanoglu Sent: Saturday, June 09, 2007 3:21 PM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Re: high-bit characters WeberSites LTD dedi ki: > Thanks, I'll check this out. > > Till now I managed to get the result I wanted with : > > <?php > for ($i=0 ; $i < strlen($post_text) ; $i++) { $chr = $post_text{$i}; > $ord = ord($chr); if (($ord<32 or $ord>126) and ($ord != 13) and ($ord > != 10)){ Echo "BAD CHAR is : " . $ord; break; } } ?> My suggestion finds high-bit characters (127-255), but you need to find printable characters with the exception of \n and \r. So my suggestion won't work for you, I'm afraid. Perhaps you want something like below? $bad_string_flag = ! ctype_print(strtr($string, "\n\r", " ")); >From the docs, it seems that replacement string in strtr cannot be null for correct operation, so I've used double blanks (or use any chars, e.g. "NR"). The strtr part feels a bit clumsy, but you might be able to find a better way in "XVII. Character Type Functions" or "CLXI. String Functions" (PHP Manual). Kind regards, Abdullah > > > berber > > -----Original Message----- > From: news [mailto:news@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Abdullah > Ramazanoglu > Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 11:43 PM > To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx > Subject: Re: high-bit characters > > WeberSites LTD dedi ki: > >> I'm trying to validate an RSS feed and getting errors about "high-bit >> characters". >> How can I check if a string contains any high-bit characters? > > if (preg_match("/[\x80-\xff]/", $string)) { > # high-bit char found > } else { > # no high-bit char > } > > -- > Abdullah Ramazanoglu > aramazan ÄT myrealbox D0T cöm > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: > http://www.php.net/unsub.php > -- Abdullah Ramazanoglu aramazan ÄT myrealbox D0T cöm -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php