setlocale and regular expressions

Hi everybody.

I've got a problem with setting locale and regular expression.

I can set them without any trouble - I'm using LC_ALL category.

In Perl setting locale LC_CTYPE works also with regex but I was trying
to apply simple pattern [a-z] for polish characters just like this:

setlocale(LC_ALL, 'pl_PL');

// testing purposes
//$locale_info = localeconv();
//print_r($locale_info);
//echo strftime("%A %e %B %Y", mktime(0, 0, 0, 16, 6, 2005));

if (preg_match('/^[a-z]{2,10}$/', 'aezztest'))
{
echo 'works ;-)';
}

Maybe I'm doing sth wrong?
Has anyone succeeded in using locale and regex?
'locale -a' gives me also pl_PL.iso88592 - but when I use it I get the
same result as pl_PL.

thanks in advance for any help
best regards
R

if (preg_match('/^[a-z]{2,10}$/', 'aezztest'))
^^^^ wow google did some
magic here ;-)
polish characters
meant to be here (in place of 'aezztest'

what ever ;-) the problem is that this regex isn't working...

R <ruthless@poczta.onet.pl> wrote:
> if (preg_match('/^[a-z]{2,10}$/', 'aezztest'))
> ^^^^ wow google did some
> magic here ;-)
> polish characters
> meant to be here (in place of 'aezztest'

Just in case you didn't know: Google's G2 thingy is extremly borken.

> what ever ;-) the problem is that this regex isn't working...

That's because [a-z] matches is the equivalanet to [\x61-\x7a]

If you want to match lowercase extended characters in iso8859-2
encoding, you need to generate a character class like:
[\xb1\xb3\xb9-\xbc]
(and lots more I guess).

so the conclusion is:

Perl's locale != PHP's locale

if in Perl polish locale is set, [a-z] matches both (all) characters:
latin and polish

Maybe if PHP uses PCRE it also should use locale when matching
patterns?
It would be extremely useful.

cheers
R