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<?php $text = 'بيتر هو صبي.'; // arabic //$text = 'פיטר הוא ילד.'; // hebrew if (preg_match('~\p{Arabic}~u', $text)) echo "Text has some arabic/hebrew characters."; else echo "Text doesnt have arabic/hebrew characters."; ?>
Output for 4.4.3 - 4.4.9, 5.1.3 - 5.1.6, 5.2.0 - 5.2.17, 5.3.0 - 5.3.29, 5.4.0 - 5.4.45, 5.5.0 - 5.5.35, 5.6.0 - 5.6.28, 7.0.0 - 7.0.20, 7.1.0 - 7.1.20, 7.2.0 - 7.2.33, 7.3.12 - 7.3.33, 7.4.0 - 7.4.33, 8.0.0 - 8.0.30, 8.1.0 - 8.1.28, 8.2.0 - 8.2.18, 8.3.0 - 8.3.6
Text has some arabic/hebrew characters.
Output for 5.0.5, 5.1.0 - 5.1.2
<br /> <b>Warning</b>: preg_match() [<a href='function.preg-match'>function.preg-match</a>]: Compilation failed: unknown property name after \P or \p at offset 9 in <b>/in/KrXdL</b> on line <b>5</b><br /> Text doesnt have arabic/hebrew characters.
Output for 5.0.0 - 5.0.4
<br /> <b>Warning</b>: preg_match() [<a href='function.preg-match'>function.preg-match</a>]: Compilation failed: PCRE does not support \L, \l, \N, \P, \p, \U, \u, or \X at offset 1 in <b>/in/KrXdL</b> on line <b>5</b><br /> Text doesnt have arabic/hebrew characters.
Output for 4.4.0 - 4.4.2
<br /> <b>Warning</b>: preg_match(): Compilation failed: unknown property name after \P or \p at offset 9 in <b>/in/KrXdL</b> on line <b>5</b><br /> Text doesnt have arabic/hebrew characters.
Output for 4.3.11
<br /> <b>Warning</b>: preg_match(): Compilation failed: PCRE does not support \L, \l, \N, \P, \p, \U, \u, or \X at offset 1 in <b>/in/KrXdL</b> on line <b>5</b><br /> Text doesnt have arabic/hebrew characters.
Output for 4.3.0 - 4.3.10
<br /> <b>Warning</b>: Compilation failed: PCRE does not support \L, \l, \N, \P, \p, \U, \u, or \X at offset 1 in <b>/in/KrXdL</b> on line <b>5</b><br /> Text doesnt have arabic/hebrew characters.

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