Are the PHP preg_functions multibyte safe?

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pcre supports utf8 out of the box, see documentation for the ‘u’ modifier.

Illustration (\xC3\xA4 is the utf8 encoding for the german letter “ä”)

  echo preg_replace('~\w~', '@', "a\xC3\xA4b");

this echoes “@@¤@” because “\xC3” and “\xA4” were treated as distinct symbols

  echo preg_replace('~\w~u', '@', "a\xC3\xA4b");

(note the ‘u’) prints “@@@” because “\xC3\xA4” were treated as a single letter.

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