Adding special char to regular expression?

Question

I have a regular expression that matches three kinds of apostrophes, '’‘. I directly pasted the last two from Microsoft word into the regex. However when I test it, my regular expression fails and when I inspect my javascript validation script in firefox, I see '’‘\ instead of '’‘. Do I need to escape them or use the ASCII format?

Answer 1

Use unicode or octal codes:

/\u0022/ // matches "
/\042/ // matches "