title: Regular Expression to allow french text as well as english text?
body: <p>I want to use a regular expression which will allow</p>
  
  <ol>
  <li>English text which does not have a special character.</li>
  <li>French Text which does not have a special character.</li>
  </ol>
  
  <p>It will always disallow special characters like @, #, % etc... in both the language.</p>
  
  <p>I have tried with the below code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>if (this.value.match(/[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]/g)) {
      this.value = this.value.replace(/[^a-zA-Z0-9 ]/g, '');
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>It works fine with english text, but the problem is when I provide a french text like éléphant, it considers the french characters as special character, and deletes the french characters. so éléphant becomes lphant.</p>
  
  <p>Is there any way to allow the french characters inside the regular expression?</p>
  
  <p>Thanks a lot in advance.</p>