regex in Vietnamese characters

I have one string and want remove any character not in开发者_高级运维 any case below:

• not in this list : ÀÁÂÃÈÉÊÌÍÒÓÔÕÙÚĂĐĨŨƠàáâãèéêìíòóôõùúăđĩũơƯĂẠẢẤẦẨẪẬẮẰẲẴẶẸẺẼỀỀỂ ưăạảấầẩẫậắằẳẵặẹẻẽềềểỄỆỈỊỌỎỐỒỔỖỘỚỜỞỠỢỤỦỨỪễệỉịọỏốồổỗộớờởỡợụủứừỬỮỰỲỴÝỶỸửữựỳỵỷỹ

• not in [a-z 0-9 A-Z]

• not is : _ and white space.

can anyone help me with this regex in php?

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Try this regular expression:

/[^a-z0-9A-Z_ÀÁÂÃÈÉÊÌÍÒÓÔÕÙÚĂĐĨŨƠàáâãèéêìíòóôõùúăđĩũơƯĂẠẢẤẦẨẪẬẮẰẲẴẶẸẺẼỀỀỂưăạảấầẩẫậắằẳẵặẹẻẽềềểỄỆỈỊỌỎỐỒỔỖỘỚỜỞỠỢỤỦỨỪễếệỉịọỏốồổỗộớờởỡợụủứừỬỮỰỲỴÝỶỸửữựỳỵỷỹ]/u

The u modifier makes PHP to interpret the pattern string as UTF-8.

If that doesn’t work, try using Unicode character properties like \p{L} for letters or the escape sequence \x{1234} for describing single Unicode characters or custom character ranges:

/[^a-z0-9A-Z_\x{00C0}-\x{00FF}\x{1EA0}-\x{1EFF}]/u

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The above regexes lacks of ế, also ă and ề are duplicated.
List of correct Vietnamese characters: àáãạảăắằẳẵặâấầẩẫậèéẹẻẽêềếểễệđìíĩỉịòóõọỏôốồổỗộơớờởỡợùúũụủưứừửữựỳỵỷỹýÀÁÃẠẢĂẮẰẲẴẶÂẤẦẨẪẬÈÉẸẺẼÊỀẾỂỄỆĐÌÍĨỈỊÒÓÕỌỎÔỐỒỔỖỘƠỚỜỞỠỢÙÚŨỤỦƯỨỪỬỮỰỲỴỶỸÝ
Also, remember to normalize the string in NFC form (string.normalize('NFC')) before testing it with the regex. Read more here.

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Be careful. Vietnamese Unicode characters may be "decomposed" into "combining characters" with one codepoint for the base character and one or more codepoints for addittional diacritics, or they may be "precomposed" into single Unicode codepoints. Combining diacritics won't work as expected with a regular expression range [] since you will match them no matter what base character they combine with.

Older versions of Unicode did not contain the full set of Vietnamese precomposed characters so expect to find Vietnamese with combining characters in the wild. You can convert combining characters into precomposed characters using Unicode normalization form C, NFC.

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$newtext = preg_replace('/[^a-z0-9A-Z_[:space:]ÀÁÂÃÈÉÊÌÍÒÓÔÕÙÚĂĐĨŨƠàáâãèéêìíòóôõùúăđĩũơƯĂẠẢẤẦẨẪẬẮẰẲẴẶẸẺẼỀỀỂ ưăạảấầẩẫậắằẳẵặẹẻẽềềểỄỆỈỊỌỎỐỒỔỖỘỚỜỞỠỢỤỦỨỪễệỉịọỏốồổỗộớờởỡợụủứừỬỮỰỲỴÝỶỸửữựỳỵỷỹ]/u','',$text);

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You can try, this is passed "ê,ế,Ê,Ế" with this following regex: ^[a-zA-Z_ÀÁÂÃÈÉÊẾÌÍÒÓÔÕÙÚĂĐĨŨƠàáâãèéêếìíòóôõùúăđĩũơƯĂẠẢẤẦẨẪẬẮẰẲẴẶẸẺẼỀỀỂưăạảấầẩẫậắằẳẵặẹẻẽềềểỄỆỈỊỌỎỐỒỔỖỘỚỜỞỠỢỤỦỨỪễệỉịọỏốồổỗộớờởỡợụủứừỬỮỰỲỴÝỶỸửữựỳỵỷỹ\ ]+$