On Monday, April 15, 2002, at 02:43 PM, Boaz Yahav wrote:
> I have an application that works with two languages. I'm trying to write > a function that will tell me if a string > contains only English or also chars from the other language. It's enough > that there is one char of a different > language to make the function return a true value. > > I guess I'm not inventing the wheel here... I would create an array of characters according to your definition of English characters, and then check to see if any of those characters are in the string. But since the trend appears to be in moving toward Unicode, the "official" distinction of an English character vs any other language's character is becoming blurry -- at least in the field of information delivery. Erik ---- Erik Price Web Developer Temp Media Lab, H.H. Brown [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php