Regex for Umlaut

Question

I am using JS Animated Contact Form with this line of validation regex:

rx:{\".name\":{rx:/^[a-zA-Z\'][a-zA-Z-\' ]+[a-zA-Z\']?$/,target:\'input\'}, other fie         


        

Answer 1

You should use in your regex unicode codes for characters, like \u0080. For German language, I found following table:

Zeichen     Unicode
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Ä, ä        \u00c4, \u00e4
Ö, ö        \u00d6, \u00f6
Ü, ü        \u00dc, \u00fc
ß           \u00df

(source http://javawiki.sowas.com/doku.php?id=java:unicode)