Question

I need a some help to replace all non-word characters in a string.

As an example (stadtbezirkspräsident' should become stadtbezirkspräsident.

This Regex should work for all languages so it’s kind of tricky because I have no idea how to match characters like ñ or œ. I tried solving this with

string.replace(/[&\/\\#,+()$~%.'":*?<>-_{}]/g,' ');

but ther are still to many special characters like Ø left.

Perhaps there is a general Selector for this, or anybody has solved this problem before?

Answer 1

If you have define all the Unicode ranges yourself, it’s going to be a lot of work.

It might make more sense to use Steven Levithan’s XRexExp package with Unicode add-ons and utilize its Unicode property shortcuts:

var regex = new XRegExp("\\P{L}+", "g")
string = XRegExp.replace(string, regex, "")