check if Special characters is Chinese or English

Question

Now my app needs to check the input. I can recognize whether the input is Chinese, English or a number, but there are also special characters in Chinese and English. How to check this?

there is different between Special characters in Chinese mode and English mode,like this：

chineseMode: ， 。
EnglishMode：, .

Thanks for your answers.

You can check this [post](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3541371/php-how-do-i-detect-if-an-input-string-is-arabic). Its about arabic, but i guess you can alter it for Chinese or any other language. — Alankar Srivastava, Mar 28 '13 at 07:04
@Shiv yes in special Chacters there is different between Chin and Engl — Xoangle, Mar 28 '13 at 07:09
@Alankar thank you but isn't what i want ,i can check the language — Xoangle, Mar 28 '13 at 07:10

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 28 '13 at 07:13

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Not sure if it will help you.you can try like this using regex and also you can add other special characters here.

boolean result = yourString.contains("[-+.^:,]");

answered Mar 28 '13 at 07:13

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score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 28 '13 at 07:25

Use this method to check special characters:

    Pattern p = Pattern.compile("[&%$#@!()*^]"); //<---- you can add more characters to check here 
    Matcher m = p.matcher(myEditText2);
    if (m.find()) {
        editText.setError("you can not enter special Character");
        return false;
    }

import these packages:

import java.util.regex.Matcher;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

check if Special characters is Chinese or English

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