Comments on: Unicode Support on CentOS 5.2 with PHP and PCRE

By: Ransome

Ransome — Sun, 23 Oct 2011 20:56:51 +0000

An excellent write up, solution worked beautifully. Magento was yelling at me about this and I thought for sure I was going to have to compile from source or something. Very elegant and no errors encountered. Thanks!

By: HC Designs

HC Designs — Fri, 16 Sep 2011 09:25:41 +0000

yum update pcre did it for us

By: Video Clips Online

Video Clips Online — Sat, 27 Aug 2011 15:36:00 +0000

Thanks, I use this for a new installation of joomla … there was blank page on new install, then I saw my nginx error log and found the problem – PCRE issue.
I was having 8.10 and have updated to 8.13 – downloaded from the main website http://www.pcre.org/ .
After that i just tar -zxvf , configure as the author of this post said ( ./configure –enable-utf8 –enable-unicode-properties ) , make, make isntall and restarted my nginx . (Note that I have stopped and started the webserver also fastcgi – don’t know why normal “restart” does not take affect )

Now everything works great. Thank you !

By: FORCÉN

FORCÉN — Mon, 25 Jul 2011 12:16:27 +0000

[...] The solution varies from distro to distro. Here you’ll find the way to get Unicode support on Centos. [...]

By: Joaquin Rivas

Joaquin Rivas — Tue, 14 Jun 2011 14:59:25 +0000

Thank you very much for the help, it saved me a lot of time!

By: Alexander Driantsov

Alexander Driantsov — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 10:41:19 +0000

Since `pcre-6.6-6.el5_6.1` unicode properties had been enabled officially, so feel free to upgrade pcre in causal way.

By: Cris

Cris — Sun, 05 Jun 2011 00:04:19 +0000

Thanks for pointing me in the right direction.

If running CentOS 5 the latest PCRE version 6.6.6 has this enabled, and I think that was updated recently (I am CentOS 5.3). Just update now. Since I was 5.3 and 32 bit, I was following the rebuild instructions (my steps below), and editing pcre.spec I found enable-unicode-properties already there. Yum update got me rolling on my machine:

Pre-update:

%uname -i
– Linux system_name 2.6.18-194.32.1.el5 #1 SMP Wed Jan 5 17:53:09 EST 2011 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux
%yum list pcre*
– told me I was running 6.6.2 and 6.6.6 was available.
%pcretest -C
– said “No Unicode properties support”.

After “yum update”…

%pcretest -C
– said “Unicode properties support”

Here were the steps I “was” up to in case it helps someone else…

su – my_nomral_user
echo “%_topdir /home/elliottcg/src/rpm” >> ~/.rpmmacros
mkdir -p ~/src/rpm
cd ~/src/rpm
mkdir BUILD RPMS SOURCES SPECS SRPMS
mkdir RPMS/{i386,i486,i586,i686,noarch,athlon}
cd ~
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/centos/5/os/SRPMS/pcre-6.6-6.el5.src.rpm
rpm -ivh pcre-6.6-6.el5.src.rpm
note: ignored “warning: xxx mockbuild…” messages
vi ~/src/rpm/SPECS/pcre.spec
FIX (hey! already emabled in 6.6.6): %configure –enable-utf8 –enable-unicode-properties
rpmbuild -ba ~/src/rpm/SPECS/pcre.spec
rpm -Uvh ~/src/rpm/RPMS/xxx/pcre-6.6-2.7.i386.rpm ~/src/rpm/RPMS/xxx/pcre-devel-6.6-2.7.i386.rpm

By: andrew

andrew — Mon, 28 Mar 2011 14:09:56 +0000

Thanks man,
you saved hours of my life!

By: Paul Theodoropoulos

Paul Theodoropoulos — Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:22:02 +0000

reason #65,537 why i love the internet.

By: Pisu

Pisu — Mon, 14 Mar 2011 22:44:32 +0000

Thanks, it saved me lot of headache!