Matthew Nuzum wrote:

>Hi, sorry to post the off topic, but this list is my greatest resource
>with my current problem.
>
>I've created a management form for creating files in a CMS that I've
>designed and I use a regular expression to prevent files with non-url
>and non-cms friendly characters from being used. 
>
>I've found that some of my international customers can't use certain
>characters that they need, can someone suggest a change to my regular
>expression that would allow this? 
>
>Here's the regexp I use:
>^[\w\s-]*$
>
>Here's what I allow: characters (upper or lower case), numbers, space
>(which gets converted to an underscore), hyphens and underscores.  I
>need to expand it to allow accented characters in languages such as
>Polish, German, Spanish and Portuguese.
>
>Here are two words that don't work that should: Español Português
>
>Can anyone suggest a change that would allow an expanded list of
>characters?
>  
>

You may want to read up on this perl document, which should give you 
some clues how to allow for these characters:
    perldoc perllocale

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