Accent in Regular Expression in Java

Question

I\'d like to use Hibernate Validator to validate some columns. The problem, as I understand, is that the \\w marker in java doesn\'t accept letters with accents on them.

Answer 1

The Java regex documentation has a section on Unicode categories (search for "Classes for Unicode blocks and categories"). If you're just looking for letters, I think \p{L} is the category you want.