[PHP-dev 45] Re: Two-Byte Regular Expressions

[Yasuo Ohgaki]

"Stephen Cremin" <asianfilmlibrary@mac.com> wrote in message
news:20010819210056.XGVA20588.mta05-svc.ntlworld.com@[62.252.202.64]..
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> I note that the latest build of PHP4 comes with Japanese string
support.
> Does this include support for two-byte regular expressions?  If yes,
does it
> also work with Chinese and Korean text?  If no, what other options
do I have
> without, for example, going through say JPerl or whatever?

mbstring module does not support multi-byte regex.

There is multi-byte encoding regular expression module called mbregex
which is not a std PHP extension. It probably works with
EUC-TW/EUC-KR.

ftp://night.fminn.nagano.nagano.jp/php4/

I don't use it lately, but I think it comes with Japanese instruction
only.

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Yasuo Ohgaki