unable to preg_match() żṡẓṣṢẒ characters

[jomla]

Hi at all

I have a reg exp (used with php) like

$filter="/^{[a-zA-Z0-9âèéêëòóôöüù-\s]+$/";}

I am unable to add some special utf-8 characters because if I paste these characters into my editor it does'nt recognize them.

Characters are: żṡẓṣṢẒ

Reg exp'ld be:
$filter="/^{[a-zA-Z0-9âèéêëòóôöüù-żṡẓṣṢẒ\s]+$/";}
(but I cannot save it with my edit plus editor)

I tryed to insert characters as:

\u017C\u1E61\u1E93\u1E63\u1E62\u1E92

But I believe I have to turn on this capablity for PHP and syntax uses an 'x' instead of a 'u'
Therefore My final regexp is:

^{[a-zA-Z0-9âèéêëòóôöüù-\x017C\x1E61\x1E93\x1E63\x1E62\x1E92]}

To try it I wrote this little script:

<?PHP
mb_internal_encoding("UTF-8");
Header('Content-Type: text/html; charset: utf-8');

$filter="/^{[a-zA-Z0-9âèéêëòóôöüù-\x017C\x1E61\x1E93\x1E63\x1E62\x1E92\s]+$/";}
echo $filter;
?>

result is:
/^{[a-zA-Z0-9âèéêëòóôöüù-7C6193636292\s]+$/}

That is far from what I need truely.

How can I do please?

Thankyou

[nevvermind]

Hey, change the editor, not the code!

Found this lil' trick. Dunno if it's the best thing to do, but it works (php 5.3.1):

<?php
$filter="/(*UTF8)[a-zA-Z0-9âèéêëòóôöüù&#380;&#7777;&#7827;&#7779;&#7778;&#7826;-\s]+/";

preg_match($filter, '&#380;&#7777;&#7827;&#7779;&#7778;&#7826;', $match);

echo $match[0] // outputs: &#380;&#7777;&#7827;&#7779;&#7778;&#7826;;
?>

Change it as you see fit. Have you tried the "/u" modifier?