[cobalt-developers] OT: non-english compatible reg-exp

["Matthew Nuzum" <cobalt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi, sorry to post the off topic, but this list is my greatest resource
with my current problem.

I've created a management form for creating files in a CMS that I've
designed and I use a regular expression to prevent files with non-url
and non-cms friendly characters from being used. 

I've found that some of my international customers can't use certain
characters that they need, can someone suggest a change to my regular
expression that would allow this? 

Here's the regexp I use:
^[\w\s-]*$

Here's what I allow: characters (upper or lower case), numbers, space
(which gets converted to an underscore), hyphens and underscores.  I
need to expand it to allow accented characters in languages such as
Polish, German, Spanish and Portuguese.

Here are two words that don't work that should: Español Português

Can anyone suggest a change that would allow an expanded list of
characters?

Matthew Nuzum
www.followers.net
matt@xxxxxxxxxxxxx