Identifying Different Unicode/utf-8 Types Inside A Text String
I am dealing with a script that reverses a string that is in hebrew, so I can display it properly when I write that string onto an image, however sometimes the string might be half hebrew half english, so I need a way to identify what language is in the string and only reverse the hebrew parts.
in technical terms the hebrew text is encoded in utf-8, and the english text will be encoded in the normal encoding for english, (anscii, latin-swedish whatever, i dont know the name of that encoding)
so the simple question is how do I identify different types of encoding within a string?
that way I can break up the parts that i identify as being utf-8 and reverse only those
(yes I am well aware of methods to display hebrew properly in php, but when writing to an image this is another story, only method i found so far is reversing the hebew text string)
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