On 28/02/2008, Casey <heavyccasey@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:> > Thank you very much, Zoltan. Is there a known UTF-8 limitation?> > Because it works fine for me in English letters (well, the opposite of> > what I needed but I was able to work with it as which polar I start> > with was arbitrary), but not in Hebrew letters. For instance, this> > works as expected:> >> > $test="aabacada aa a f";> > $test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)a\b.*/U', '$1A', $test);> > print $test; // PRINTS aabacadA aA a f> >> > However, this does not:> >> > $test="אאבאגאדא אא א ";> > $test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)ע\b.*/U', '$1א', $test);> > print $test; // PRINTS אאבאגאדא אא א> >> > Am I misunderstanding something, or is there a UTF-8 problem, or> > something else? Thank you for your assistance, it is much appreciated> > and I'm learning what I can.>> The "a" character (97) is different from the "א" character (1488).>> $a = html_entity_decode('א');>> $test=preg_replace('/\b([^\s]+)' . $a . '\b.*/U', '$1A', $test);>>> Will this work?
No, it doesn't. I've been playing around a bit and learning, and itlooks like it really should work. With English letters it does. Butnot with Hebrew. You can see the result and the exact code usedhere:http://gibberish.co.il/test.html
I appreciate the assistance. I'm certain that we're missing only somesmall detail here.
Dotan Cohen
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A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing?
