Return-Path: Delivered-To: apmail-jakarta-oro-dev-archive@apache.org Received: (qmail 77984 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2002 13:44:45 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO nagoya.betaversion.org) (192.18.49.131) by daedalus.apache.org with SMTP; 16 Jan 2002 13:44:45 -0000 Received: (qmail 14978 invoked by uid 97); 16 Jan 2002 13:44:43 -0000 Delivered-To: qmlist-jakarta-archive-oro-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 14958 invoked by uid 97); 16 Jan 2002 13:44:40 -0000 Mailing-List: contact oro-dev-help@jakarta.apache.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Help: List-Post: List-Id: "ORO Developers List" Reply-To: "ORO Developers List" Delivered-To: mailing list oro-dev@jakarta.apache.org Received: (qmail 14941 invoked from network); 16 Jan 2002 13:44:39 -0000 Message-ID: <295A9D64E5DC2D469405DE8037DDAB6904C69C@delmmsx01.sapient.com> From: Sanjay Chopra To: "'oro-user@jakarta.apache.org'" Cc: "'oro-dev@jakarta.apache.org'" Subject: detecting UTF-8 characters in Strings Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2002 19:06:25 +0530 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2653.19) Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C19E92.CB349800" X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N X-Spam-Rating: daedalus.apache.org 1.6.2 0/1000/N ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19E92.CB349800 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I am trying to write a validation function that would allow me to detect any UTF-8 characters Just to give the context -- its a user driven program and we would like to detect when the user has entered any UTF-8 character Vs. only ASCII characters. An expression something like this : "[a-zA-Z][\\w\\-]{2,31}" would allow to enter the ascii characters Is there a way by way of expressions that I can detect if the user is entering UTF-8 characters ... \u or \x something of that sorts... any help would be greatly appreciated.. many thanks -sanjay ------_=_NextPart_001_01C19E92.CB349800--