validate if UTF-8 string is alphabetic

Question

I have some string:

$str = 'Xin chào';
$str2 = 'Xin chào 1';

In order to check if these two string variables is alphabetic, I've tried with ctype_alpha. However, both of ctype_alpha($str) and ctype_alpha($str2) are falsy.

Is there any other method that similars to ctype_alpha and working great with UTF-8?

see http://stackoverflow.com/questions/961573/utf-8-isalpha-in-php — max, May 02 '14 at 11:07

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered May 02 '14 at 11:08

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this should work for you

preg_match('/^\p{L}[\p{L} _.-]+$/u', $str);

For more Information take a look at http://php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.unicode.php

answered May 02 '14 at 11:08

donald123

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Why `p{L}[\p{L} _.-]+`? Just `p{L}+` would be enough. – Amal Murali May 02 '14 at 11:11

validate if UTF-8 string is alphabetic

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