Include multiple character sets in regex JS

Question

I am working on FormCheck http://mootools.floor.ch/docs/formcheck/files/formcheck-js.html and just fund out that it has issues with other characters except a-z for example :филми
you can try it on their demo under alpha http://mootools.floor.ch/en/demos/formcheck/

now I am making a multilingual form that works fine but my verification fails when somone starts typing with special chars.

long story short , this is

alpha regex

alpha: /^[a-z ._-]+$/i

how can I modify it to include any alpha chars?

possible duplicate of [Test if string contains only letters (a-z + é ü ö ê å ø etc..)](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/2013451/test-if-string-contains-only-letters-a-z-e-u-o-e-a-o-etc) — Ben Lee, Feb 21 '12 at 02:19

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Feb 21 '12 at 02:20

Try using the XRegExp Unicode plugin. With that library you could do something like this:

var unicodeWord = XRegExp("^\\p{L}+$");
// \p{L} matches any "letter" codepoint.
unicodeWord.test('филми'); // true
unicodeWord.test('movies'); // true
unicodeWord.test('!@#$'); // false

Include multiple character sets in regex JS

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