Chinese characters

9 Mar 2006 10:05 PM

lyudmilal

I have a list of last names that can be in different languages:
chinese, english, russian, german, etc. Different format need to be
applied only for last names in chinese. For this purpose, I need to
check if last name contains chinese characters. Any ideas how to do it
(it should be data related check)?

Thank you,
Ludmila

9 Mar 2006 10:37 PM

Jon Skeet [C# MVP]

<lyudmi***@ungerboeck.com> wrote:

> I have a list of last names that can be in different languages:
> chinese, english, russian, german, etc. Different format need to be
> applied only for last names in chinese. For this purpose, I need to
> check if last name contains chinese characters. Any ideas how to do it
> (it should be data related check)?

Identify the range of Chinese characters (using the code charts at
http://www.unicode.org) and look through each character in the last
name (eg using String.Split or a regex to get the last name) and see
whether or not it's Chinese.

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