Matching a Unicode “name” with a JavaScript Regular Expression

Question

In JavaScript we can match individual Unicode codepoints or codepoint ranges by using the Unicode escape sequences, e.g.:

\"A\".match(/\\u0041/) // => [\"         


        

Answer 1

Here's a JS plugin that adds Unicode support to RegEx

http://xregexp.com/plugins/

Answer 2

I am using for defining unicode of a symbols this site http://www.fileformat.info.

Unicode Blocks (Basic Latin, .+, Cyrillic, .+, Arabic and other): http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/block/index.htm

Unicode Character Categories (this does not work in JS): http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/category/index.htm

Letters (A-я): http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/a.htm

Fonts (which chars are supported in each font): http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/font/index.htm

Index for all above http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/index.htm