non english input validation

tsvi has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

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Re: non english input validation by pbeckingham (Parson) on Jul 01, 2004 at 13:04 UTC
Yes, you can. If you provide a `regex` and sample strings, we can help.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: non english input validation by hardburn (Abbot) on Jul 01, 2004 at 13:53 UTC
This is highly non-trvial. It's easy to check for languages that don't share the same alphabet as English (they'll be using characters way outside the ASCII range), anything using Latin-1 is a lot harder. You might be able to find a stray accent mark, or see a few odd characters that are included in Latin-1 but aren't in English, but that's about it. ---- send money to your kernel via the boot loader.. This and more wisdom available from Markov Hardburn.	[reply]
Re: non english input validation by ccn (Vicar) on Jul 01, 2004 at 13:45 UTC
`print 'non english' if m/[\x7B-\xFF]/;` [download]	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: non english input validation by pbeckingham (Parson) on Jul 01, 2004 at 16:13 UTC
You're not seriously implying that the presence of eight-bit characters implies non-English, are you? That's just one end of the character set, and has nothing to do with language.	[reply]