Regex for a-z , hypen (-) and å ä ö in Zend Route Regex

Question

I want to route url through Zend route regex with Swedish character and here is my regex in xml configuration:

..... ([a-z\-å|ä|ö]+) .....

Still, the route doesn't behave as I expect. It doesn't redirect when the link contains å, ä, or ö

I have tried to change to [a-zåäö\-]+ but it also gives the same result..

anyone can help? Thank you so much in advance! :)

Answer 1

I'm not sure about Zend route, but when using, for instance, preg_match, you may want to go for something like

preg_match('/[a-zåä]/u',$url);

(note the u for unicode). Another possibility is that your data is %-escaped.

And I'm not sure what [a-z-å|ä|ö] supposed to mean…

Answer 2

I think the browser would encode those characters and not sure Zend Framework decode it before passing it to the route engine, can you try a regexp with the % equivalent of those characters ?