I have a need for a javascript regex that would match words in any language, but fail for emoji or any other character. Solution here: [Regular expression to match non-English characters?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/150033/regular-expression-to-match-non-english-characters) matches all letters plus pictograms and emoji (`[^\u0000-\u007F]+`).

Modifying it a bit seems to accomplish what I need, but I'm not sure how safe it is: `([a-zA-Z]|[^\u0000-\u007F\u200d-\u3299\ud83c-\udfff\ufe0e\ufe0f])+`

Example:
`America`
`Österreich`
`Россия`
`Ελλάδα`

Should only match letters and stop before emoji. Should not match emojis with letter representations, for example: `1️⃣#️⃣*️⃣`

Relevant: <http://www.unicode.org/Public/emoji/5.0/emoji-variation-sequences.txt>

**Bit of context:**
I'm trying to patch this parser: <https://github.com/Khan/simple-markdown/blob/master/simple-markdown.js#L1304> to break on emojis, because currently it matches as much text as it can. Without that matching/replacing emoji via that parser is problematic. Removing `\u00c0-\uffff` from the highlighted regex accomplishes what I need, but parser starts breaking up words. Some languages (cyrrillic) get broken per letter, which is not good for performance. I need to either patch that regex to allow letters, but not emojis, or put a regex that catches all text before it.

*Edit: Added some examples*

*Edit: Added language restriction*