regex - create URL slugs for chinese characters. Using PHP -

my users use chinese characters title of input.

my slugs in format of /stories/:id-:name example /stories/1-i-love-php.

how allow chinese characters?

i have googled , found japanese version of answer on here.

don't quite understand japanese, asking chinese version.

thank you.

i have tested in bengali characters

it may work. try this: @ first coded page (write code in page) have convert encoding type in utf-8, write code.

code here:

function to_slug($string, $separator = '-') {     $re = "/(\\s|\\".$separator.")+/mu";     $str = @trim($string);     $subst = $separator;     $result = preg_replace($re, $subst, $str);     return $result; }  $id=34; $string_text="আড়াইহাজারে দেড় বছরের ---  শিশুর -গলায় ছুরি"; $base_url="http://example.com/"; echo $target_url=$base_url.$id."-". @to_slug($string_text);  var_dump($target_url); 

output:

http://example.com/34-আড়াইহাজারে-দেড়-বছরের-শিশুর-গলায়-ছুরি  string 'http://example.com/34-আড়াইহাজারে-দেড়-বছরের-শিশুর-গলায়-ছুরি' (length=136)