[SOLVED] french characters

[sethupathy]

this is my code and it wont accept french caracter like é à l' can someone help pls

 

function isAlphabet(elem, helperMsg){

var alphaExp = /^[a-zA-Z ]+$/;

if(elem.value.match(alphaExp)){

return true;

}else{

alert(helperMsg);

elem.focus();

return false;

 

[Wuhtzu]

Just add all the special french chars to your regex:

 

/^[a-zA-ZéÉàÀ]+$/

[sethupathy]

i did what you said and i added some more like ' and - " and it does not work

 

/^[a-zA-ZéÉàÀ'-" ]+$/

 

is there another way to add ' - "

[Wuhtzu]

The - (minus) should always be the last character in a set of characters in a regex because it is used to define ranges... eg. a-z 0-9 but when you do this '-" it yields error because no range between ' and " exists.

 

 

So do this:

 

/^[a-zA-ZéÉàÀ'"-]+$/

[sethupathy]

great thank you very much guys

 

problem solved