...ou did write this from the beginning. – Julien Fouilhé Oct 19 '12 at 16:38 comments disabled...

...n external libraries to recognize that "Αλφα" is a word, or even that "é" is a letter. But so it goes. This guy has written a good library for handling Unicode in Javascript Regexes: http://blog.stevenlevithan.com/archives/javascript-regex-and-unicode The Unicode stuff is a plugin to this ...