How to tell if a string contains characters in Hebrew using PHP?

Question

Trying to figure out how to tell whether a string contains any characters in Hebrew with no luck.

How can this be done?

Answer 1

map of the iso8859-8 character set. The range E0 - FA appears to be reserved for Hebrew.

[\xE0-\xFA]

For UTF-8, the range reserved for Hebrew appears to be 0590 to 05FF.

[\u0590-\u05FF]

Here's an example of a regex match in PHP:

echo preg_match("/[\u0590-\u05FF]/", $string);