Hi there guys,
Hoping someone can help me out with the Regex expression regex(., '[1]+$') for capturing a name.
This condition works perfectly for Latin characters but it doesn't work for non Latin alphabets (eg. Amaharic alphabet)
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
@erobinson
@Mazz
@Norman_Hooper
@Ethan_Soergel
@Simon_Kelly
a-zA-Z\s ↩︎
A google search on arabic regex expression return this
[\u0621-\u064A] so maybe?
@Mazz a regex tester is a great idea!
@Calvin if \s works (matches any whitespace character), then \w should match a "word" character in any alphabet (Latin, Amharic, Cyrillic, etc.). Be aware that digits and underscore are also included as word characters. So [\w -]+ would match both "Charles III" and "Карл 3-й".
regex(., '^[\w\s]+$') should be the equivalent of what you've got, although I'd tweak that to regex(., '^[\w -]+$') to match just spaces instead of all whitespace, and to include hyphens for hyphenated names.
Hi @Mazz and @Norman_Hooper, thank you so much for your great responses.
@Norman_Hooper, the only thing with regex(., '^[\w -]+$') is that it allows integer values and we wanted to avoid that, otherwise that would have worked perfectly.
You guys inspired me to dig a little deeper and I was able to find a list of Unicode characters for the Ethiopian languages which includes Amharic.
Will need to do some more testing but this seems to work how we need it to:
regex(., '^[\u1200-\u137Fa-zA-Z\s]+$')
I think that there are situations where the character set is NOT unicode? or am I being parched for coffee?
I think that this /u tag tells regex expression the unicode code for the characters you want to allow.
I think that there are niche situations where your device's character set is NOT in unicode. but I doubt that you will have to worry about it.
One thing this makes me think about is the ability to have a different validation condition for the language selected. you can do it in a round about way by picking up the lang-code label though.
this is just me falling into the rabbit hole
