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Old 06-14-2012, 07:40 AM   #6
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Originally Posted by Jellby View Post
Besides, there are languages where A and Z are not the first and last letters of the alphabet. For instance, in Danish and Norwegian the alphabet is A ... Z Æ Ø Å (yes, dictionaries are from A to Å). What would [a-z] mean in these cases if it were to be extended to non-ascii characters?
[a-z] means exactly that, as far as I know - the small letters a through z. When I use regex to search for the full danish alphabet, I usually use [a-zæøå] or [A-ZÆØÅ]. Which of course doesn't find any other characters, accented or not, but they would not be part of the danish alphabet anyway ...

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