leodutra/latin1-letter-regex.js

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Basic Latin-1 Letter Regular Expression (JavaScript)

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(/[A-z\u00C0-\u00ff]+/g)

christophemarois commented Jun 29, 2015

Thanks for that!

celorodovalho commented Mar 31, 2017

This fail for ][ characters.

bjtb commented Jul 31, 2018

I'm using the following RegExp to find and remove all characters that are NOT defined in ISO/IEC 8859-1:

/[^\u0020-\u007e\u00a0-\u00ff]/g

^ for NOT, g for all occurences (global search)

I found the range on Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO/IEC_8859-1
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode#Standardized_subsets

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