Firefox throws 'invalid identity escape in regular expression' when using Perl tokens with 'u' flag [duplicate]

Question

What is the easiest way to match non-ASCII characters in a regex? I would like to match all words individually in an input string, but the language may not be English, so I will need to match things like ü, ö, ß, and ñ. Also, this is in Javascript/jQuery, so any solution will need to apply to that.

Answer 1

This should do it:

[^\x00-\x7F]+

It matches any character which is not contained in the ASCII character set (0-127, i.e. 0x0 to 0x7F).

You can do the same thing with Unicode:

[^\u0000-\u007F]+

For unicode you can look at this 2 resources:

• Code charts list of Unicode ranges
• This tool to create a regex filtered by Unicode block.