<?php
// check $string is UTF-8 or not
function is_utf8 ( $string ) {
// From http://w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.html
return preg_match ( '%^(?:
[/x09/x0A/x0D/x20-/x7E] # ASCII
| [/xC2-/xDF][/x80-/xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte
| /xE0[/xA0-/xBF][/x80-/xBF] # excluding overlongs
| [/xE1-/xEC/xEE/xEF][/x80-/xBF]{2} # straight 3-byte
| /xED[/x80-/x9F][/x80-/xBF] # excluding surrogates
| /xF0[/x90-/xBF][/x80-/xBF]{2} # planes 1-3
| [/xF1-/xF3][/x80-/xBF]{3} # planes 4-15
| /xF4[/x80-/x8F][/x80-/xBF]{2} # plane 16
)*$%xs' , $string );
} // function is_utf8
?>
http://hi.baidu.com/rogertian/blog/item/3bf96d862c49533867096ef3.html