regular expressions and unicode

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I'm trying to validate this regular expression with JavaScript. What I need it to do is check if at least 2 words are entered. By words I mean strings with any characters except some specific. Everything is good until I end a string with a special unicode character, such as "ā". Then the expression fails to validate. Currently the expression looks like this - /^([^<>\\\/\?&{};#{}\+\*()"=%@,:0-9]{1,}\w){2,}$/i

Any ideas on how to validate unicode expressions in this case?

See [Regular expression to match non-english characters?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/150033/regular-expression-to-match-non-english-characters), particularly the comments to the accepted answer. And BTW, you have two `{}` in your character class. And what are you considering to be a valid word separator? — MikeM, Apr 22 '13 at 15:03
See my answer to [this question](http://stackoverflow.com/a/7578937/626273) — stema, Apr 22 '13 at 15:17
Thanks, the expression posted above seems to be working nicely. — Deez, Apr 23 '13 at 10:37

score 0 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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On most programming lang, you would try this Unicode Regex:

/^([^<>\\\/\?&{};#{}\+\*()"=%@,:0-9\s]{1,}\p{L}){2,}$/ims

Or like this

/^([^\P]{1,}\p{L}){2,}$/ims

However, JS doesnt support Unicode that easily :(

See here for example: Javascript + Unicode regexes

edited May 23 '17 at 12:12

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answered Apr 24 '13 at 21:12

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