Chinese characters

[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

[Jon Skeet [C# MVP]]

<ly*******@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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