Hi there,

we have some members which used an accent for their name. E.g. "Spàrk" who has several alts. I edited the officer_note to "Twink Spàrk" but AltMonitor only recognises "Twink Sp" and does not add the alt to the main.

Anyone else having this problem?

There used to be a point in the wiki on this but I lost that.

There are serveral workarounds, all involving replacing the \w in the regex setting by something else.

• Use \pL to match all unicode chars defined as letters. This needs php 4.4+ or 5.1+ to work.
  
• Change the locale used on your webserver to one that includes accented letters as characters. Most european (non-english) locales should do this.
  
• Add the special letters you use after the \w in the regex. This is the most dirty fix.

The first solution is the nicest, but I don't supply it as a default because it requires a higher PHP version than roster does.

probably worth pointing people to where the \w is

you'll find it in the search string in your AltMonitor Config

Hello,
you do not have fixed (code) for this problem?!

my english and my php is bad :-(((((

I found code on the web page
http://www.php.net/manual/en/reference.pcre.pattern.syntax.php

Although \w and \W do include as "word characters" locale-specific characters (like "�" if you are using the "fr" locale), \b and \B do not work the same way.

For example :
"foo �tait bar" => /\W(�tait)\W/ => This captures correctly "�tait".
"foo �tait bar" => /\b(�tait)\b/ => This fails to capture it.

This is confusing, because the manual talks in both cases about "word characters", but fails to mention the difference in behaviour.


i can not use.

Edited my post and the original thread header to be clearer. I can't give a specific fix because there isn't one.

PleegWat wrote:There used to be a point in the wiki on this but I lost that.

There are serveral workarounds, all involving replacing the \w in the regex setting by something else.

• Use \pL to match all unicode chars defined as letters. This needs php 4.4+ or 5.1+ to work.
  
• Change the locale used on your webserver to one that includes accented letters as characters. Most european (non-english) locales should do this.
  
• Add the special letters you use after the \w in the regex. This is the most dirty fix.

The first solution is the nicest, but I don't supply it as a default because it requires a higher PHP version than roster does.

If i put \pL instead of \w i got lot of bad msg ... ^^

And i don't understand what u are talking about for the 2 other case ...

I have 4 bad mainless Alt in my roster cause of ^¨éà etc etc ...

http://juzam.dnsdojo.net/addon.php?rost ... AltMonitor

If u have an idea, thanks in advance.

No, the first option won't work for you. You're running PHP 4.3.10, you need PHP 4.4+ or 5.1+

I've tried using \pL instead of \w in the regex, but it doesn't have the desired effect...

Let's say I have a main "Péte" and an alt with note "Alt of Péte". The exact regex I'm using is: /Alt of (\pL+)/i
In the update log I see the following:

Péte has main Péte
Péte has no alts
...
Pete has main Pete
Pete has alts
...

So apparently, in the regex-match the accent gets lost and the link between main and alt isn't made. Instead, it shows Pete with a [+] sign, but without childs when clicked on, and Péte as main without alts.

Any suggestions why this isn't working?

Edit: I just tried the less-elegant expression: /Alt of ([^\s]+)/i and this seems to work in this case...

Your php version probably doesn't support the \pL construction. I can't say what's causing the strange update results though.

Well, it recognized all other main-alt relations (the ones without strange symbols in the player note) flawlessly with \pL, so I concluded that my PHP supports it.

But indeed I was wrong there: just checked and indeed it's not running PHP 4.4+ or PHP 5+.

Worked for me with my main : mîm.

Thanks a lot !

I had the same problem.
To regulate this problem, I added this line:

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<?php header('Content-type: text/html; charset=UTF-8');?>

to the first line of 'AltMonitor/index.php'

dracula wrote:
Edit: I just tried the less-elegant expression: /Alt of ([^\s]+)/i and this seems to work in this case...

This indeed fixed my issue. I had a guildie who had either á or à in his name and in his other cases had both of them in a name.
I was using /([\pL]+)'s Alt/i for my alt code and it would recongnize characters like õ and ë but not the damn a's.
Changing my alt code to /([^\s]+)'s Alt/i worked awesome.
Thanks dracula