How to match words in different languages by JavaScript regexp?

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I have a strings in different languages. I need to get only characters without numbers, '-', '/', ')', ... But seams JavaScript regexp '\w' matches only English.
http://jsfiddle.net/d9BRC/

check http://www.regular-expressions.info/unicode.html – Oussama Jilal Aug 22 '12 at 11:22 — Oussama Jilal, Aug 22 '12 at 11:22

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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After a bit of research, it seems \w does not handle unicode characters, you can do this with \p{L} (Letters), but again javascript does not support this.

Here is a solution, taken from this answer

edited May 23 '17 at 12:20

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How to match words in different languages by JavaScript regexp?

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