Remove all non-“word characters” from a String in Java, leaving accented characters?

Question

Apparently Java\'s Regex flavor counts Umlauts and other special characters as non-\"word characters\" when I use Regex.

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Answer 1

You might want to remove the accents and diacritic signs first, then on each character position check if the "simplified" string is an ascii letter - if it is, the original position shall contain word characters, if not, it can be removed.