note 19333 deleted from function.ereg by curt
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Note Submitter: JulienC@Psychologie-fr.com
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A mistake will be to use [[:alpha:]] to detect a valid string for non US people. The reason is that
all characters using circumflex (eg: â), tilde (ã), umlaut (ä), ring (å), grave (à) and acute
(á) will be ignored!
My solution is to change [[:alpha:]] to [A-Za-zÀ-ÖØ-öø-ÿ]
Enjoy!
/jc