rendered paste body<?PHP function is_utf8($string) { echo "running is_utf8"; // From http://w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.html $string=file_get_contents("http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20070120/bs_ibd_ibd/2007119tech"); $results= preg_match('%^(?: [\x09\x0A\x0D\x20-\x7E] # ASCII | [\xC2-\xDF][\x80-\xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte | \xE0[\xA0-\xBF][\x80-\xBF] # excluding overlongs | [\xE1-\xEC\xEE\xEF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # straight 3-byte | \xED[\x80-\x9F][\x80-\xBF] # excluding surrogates | \xF0[\x90-\xBF][\x80-\xBF]{2} # planes 1-3 | [\xF1-\xF3][\x80-\xBF]{3} # planes 4-15 | \xF4[\x80-\x8F][\x80-\xBF]{2} # plane 16 )*$%xs', $string); echo "done with is_utf8"; return $results; } // function is_utf8echo is_utf8("test");?>