I have a custom router that uses regex.
The problem is that I cannot parse Greek characters.
Here are some lines from index.php
:
$router->get('/theatre/plays', 'TheatreController', 'showPlays');
$router->get('/theatre/interviews', 'TheatreController', 'showInterviews');
$router->get('/theatre/[-\w\d\!\.]+', 'TheatreController', 'single_post');
Here are some lines from Router.php
:
$found = 0;
$path = parse_url($_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'], PHP_URL_PATH); //get the url
////// Bla Bla Bla /////////
if ( $found = preg_match("#^$value$#", $path) )
{
//Do stuff
}
Now, when I try a url like http://kourtis.app/theatre/α
(notice the last character is a Greek 'alpha') then it is somehow interpreted to http://kourtis.app/theatre/%CE%B1
I can see this when I var_dump($path)
or when I copy-paste the url.
I guess it has something to do with encoding but everything (I can think of) is in utf-8 format.
Any ideas?
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UPDATE: After the suggestions in the comments, the following works for only with some Greek characters:
/theatre/[α-ωΑ-Ω-\w\d\!\.]+
and use urldecode
to decode the percent-encoding of the $path
variable.
Some characters that produce an error are: κ
π
ρ
χ
.
The question now is ... why??
(BTW, this works for many chars /theatre/.+
)