How to match the international alphabet (English a-z, + non English) with a regular expression?

Question

I want to allow only entered data from the English alphabet and from the alphabet from Germany.

Like öäü OR France like áê or Chinese like

Answer 1

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I don't know about regular expressions, but i found this And it helped me in React-Native

Answer 2

In a lot languages, you can simply enter the unicode symbols into the character class: [a-zäöüß] etc.

Answer 3

It varies. Some languages have a "Unicode" flag which extend \d, \w, etc. Some support equivalence classes in a range, e.g. [[=e=]] matches e, é, ê, etc. The regex documentation for your language or library will explain what options are available.

Answer 4

Here is regex to match all alphabetical letters across international word systems using Unicode property escapes:

Check language support for Unicode property escapes, may not be available in older versions, especially web browsers (JavaScript)

TEST STRING

!"£$%^&*()_+[]{}'#;@~,./<?>¬``
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私金魚煙草莨東京
わたしきんぎょたばことうきょう
ワタシキンギョタバコトウキョウ
קרשתאבגדהוזחטיכ
abcdefghijklmonpqrstuvwxyz
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
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PCRE (PHP) / GoLang - https://regex101.com/r/iRTxw4/2

Match Letters Only: \p{L}+

Match Numbers Only: \p{N}+

Match Letters & Numbers: \p{N}+|\p{L}+

Match None Letters & Numbers: [^\p{L}\p{N}]

ECMAScript (JavaScript)

Still figuring this out...

Answer 5

With PCRE it would be \w, a "word" character. It also accepts Unicode when configured properly.

Answer 6

Since you specifically ask for Unicode, \p{L} is the shortcut for a Unicode letter. Not all regex flavors support this syntax, though. .NET, Perl, Java and the JGSoft regex engine will, Python won't, for example.

So, for example \b\p{L}+\b will match an entire word of Unicode characters.