How to check if the set of characters are german or indian (maybe with character range)

Question

I need to know if the given string is in German, Indian or Persian.

Checking for Lating or non-Latin, I simply use [a-zA-Z] regExp, but I don't know what should I do when I have two non-Latins and a German language.

Do we have any character-range other than [a-zA-Z], maybe with code range, if exists at all.

Something like this:

$string = "MyCharactersInGermanlanguage";

$res = preg_match("/[characterRangeOfgermanLanguage]/", $string);

Thanks in advanced.

German does not have an overly broad set of extended Latin characters to detect it with. Indian and Persian do. See also http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html — mario, Aug 12 '14 at 06:13

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

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Have you looked at the unicode support?

You might also want to look here for ways to detect the language from the string:

edited May 23 '17 at 11:57

Community

answered Aug 12 '14 at 06:13

Rachael

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 12 '14 at 09:51

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The full set of german letters:

abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZäÄöÖüÜß

The php regex to match the characters is:

[A-Za-z\xC4\xD6\xDC\xDF\xE4\xF6\xFC]+

answered Aug 12 '14 at 09:51

Andie2302

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