Question

A while ago I’ve asked a question regarding textboxvalidation with regex (link).
So according to the answer, I use a (clientside) regularexpressionvalidator with the following regex:

([\s*]*\w[\s*]*){3,}

Which worked as expected unless a word with accents is entered ( eg élè) for searching élève.
In that case the validation is not passed.

Can someone help me out on how to include accented letters in the above regex?
Some pages tells that \w should include accented letters, however when I test it with an online validator it fails.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Try this:

(\s*[a-zA-Z_0-9À-ÿ]\s*){3,}

OR

([\s*]*[a-zA-Z_0-9À-ÿ][\s*]*){3,}

This will include all characters from À to ÿ (all accent characers including French accents in uppercase and lowercase)