Working on a laravel project I recieved When running a route with this code I didn’t write:
if(preg_match('/([ΓΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚ])|ΣΤ|fu|ΚΑ|ΚΒ\w+/u', $char)){
return true;
}
return false;
For exapmple whe you give the Γ character you will get the error
preg_match(): Compilation failed: UTF-8 error: byte 2 top bits not 0x80 at offset 2
on php 8.1.9 and working on laravel. the same code works fine from tinker even when passing non english characters. What is the problem
>Solution :
The u flag in your expression means UTF-8. You are using Windows 1253, which is not UTF-8.
The best fix is to switch to UTF-8. Click on "Windows 1253", select "Save with encoding" and pick "UTF-8". Laravel and any contemporary web application are designed around UTF-8.