preg_match, utf-8 and accent characters

[eluser]Rob Gordijn[/eluser]
ok, after some hours of searching, reading, testing and reading some more...
i got it it was just so simple

http://www.php.net/manual/en/regexp.refe...nicode.php

\p{L} does the job.

my regex is now like this:

Code:

$regex_text = "/^([\p{L}a-zA-Z0-9]*)$/i";

thanks for reading.