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DiapDealer · 06-10-2012, 05:40 PM

\p{L} or \p{Letter} or \pL is any unicode letter character. It will match things like Á or ö (as well as the "normal" [A-Za-z]).

\p{Lu} or \p{Uppercase_Letter} is an uppercase unicode letter character.
\p{Ll} or \p{Lowercase_Letter} is a lowercase unicode letter character

http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html

I use \p{L) and its variants simply because I got tired of screwing up books that contained unicode characters where I least expected them. It's just a personal preference of mine to try and think in terms of unicode as much as possible.

I believe you can also prefix your regex expressions with (*UCP) to make them "unicode aware."

06-10-2012, 05:40 PM	#7
DiapDealer Grand Sorcerer Posts: 27,546 Karma: 193191846 Join Date: Jan 2010 Device: Nexus 7, Kindle Fire HD	\p{L} or \p{Letter} or \pL is any unicode letter character. It will match things like Á or ö (as well as the "normal" [A-Za-z]). \p{Lu} or \p{Uppercase_Letter} is an uppercase unicode letter character. \p{Ll} or \p{Lowercase_Letter} is a lowercase unicode letter character http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html I use \p{L) and its variants simply because I got tired of screwing up books that contained unicode characters where I least expected them. It's just a personal preference of mine to try and think in terms of unicode as much as possible. I believe you can also prefix your regex expressions with (*UCP) to make them "unicode aware."