Re: Regex æøå email validation?

Søren Neigaard wrote: > Hi guys > > Im helping a friend with hes internet site, and I have found this > regex email validation regex on the internet: > > var filter=/^([\w-]+(?:\.[\w-]+)*)@((?:[\w-]+\.)*\w[\w-]{0,66})\.([a- > z]{2,6}(?:\.[a-z]{2})?)$/i; > if(!filter.test(email)) { > return false; > } > > It works fine, but my friend strangely enough has users with special > danish letters (æøåÆØÅ) in their email address, and that it does not > accept. Regex is black magic to me, I have tried to modify it in > different ways, but with no luck. > > I know its not PHP specific (its JavaScript), but maybe one of you > can help me anyways? Hej Søren to get it to work, you need to be in the Danish locale, otherwise "æøå" won't be recognised as being word-characters. In javascript, I'm not sure, but maybe you have to use UTF-8? /Per Jessen, Zürich