Detect chinese (multibyte) character in the string

Question

$str = \"This is a string containing 中文 characters. Some more characters - 中华人民共和国 \";

How do I detect chinese characters from this string and prin

Answer 1

I've solved this problem using preg_match and regular expressions:

$str = "This is a string containing 中文 characters. Some more characters - 中华人民共和国 ";

preg_match(/[\x{4e00}-\x{9fa5}]+.*\-/u, $str, $matches);

Answer 2

Is PHP storing this as Unicode? If so, at worst you could step through the string, character by character, until you hit those within the Chinese range.

Check this out too PHP: Unicode - Manual