<?php
// Returns true if $string is valid UTF-8 and false otherwise.
is_utf8($string) {

// From [url=http://w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.html]http://w3.org/International/questions/qa-forms-utf-8.html[/url]
return preg_match('%^(?:
[x09x0Ax0Dx20-x7E] # ASCII
| [xC2-xDF][x80-xBF] # non-overlong 2-byte
| xE0[xA0-xBF][x80-xBF] # excluding overlongs
| [xE1-xECxEExEF][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);

}
?>