title: Include Arabic characters in JavaScript regular expression?
body: <p>So im using jquery validation on my script to only allows certain characters. I've had a request to allow the script to use arabic characters aswell. How would i do this?</p>
  
  <p>Heres my current code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    $.validator.addMethod(
      "legalname",
      function(value, element) {
          return this.optional(element) || /^[a-zA-Z0-9()._\-\s]+$/.test(value);
      },
      "Illegal character. Only points, spaces, underscores or dashes are allowed."
  );
  </code></pre>