Regular Expression To Match Accented Characters

A regular expression to match all lowercase and uppercase letters including accented characters.

/[A-zÀ-ú]/

Matches:

  • abc
  • àèìòùÀÈÌÒÙáéíóú
  • [ ] ^ \ × ÷

Non-matches:

  • &*()+
  • 123

The following regular expression can be used to match accented characters and letters with an umlaut.

/[A-zÀ-ÿ]/

Matches:

  • abc
  • àèìòùÀÈÌÒÙáéíóúýÁÉÍÓÚÝâêîôûÂÊÎÔÛãñõÃÑÕäëïöüÿÄËÏÖÜçÇߨøÅ寿
  • [ ] ^ \ × ÷

Non-matches:

  • &*()+
  • 123

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