RegEx and capitalized placeables/tokens containing accented characters

Question

I'm a new user of Studio 2021. Apologies if the following has already been discussed, but I couldn't find it in my search results... 
 I've set up Regex Match AutoSuggest to recognise capitalised words so that I can place them in my target TU, with the following Regex Pattern: 
 ([A-Z][a-zA-Z]*\s*)+ 
 This generally works very well (although I can't imagine why this isn't a standard function within Studio), but it falls down when the capitalised word contains an accented letter. For example Fr&eacute;d&eacute;ric would only be recognised as far as "Fr". Can I enhance my Regex pattern to include standard French accented characters, or to cover the whole word regardless of accents? 
 
 Thanks in advance, 
 Matthew

Raphaël Toussaint · Accepted Answer

Your solution only takes into account the ranges of letters you have specified. In order to avoid listing all accented characters, you can use the following specific Unicode classes: 
 
 \p{L} any kind of letter from any language 
 \p{Ll} any lowercase letter that has an uppercase variant 
 \p{Lu} any uppercase letter that has a lowercase variant 
 
 Your optimized search pattern would then look like this: 
 (\p{Lu}\p{L}*\b\s*)+ 
 I hope this helps! Don't hesitate if it doesn't work as expected or if anything is unclear! Kind regards, Rapha&euml;l

Michael Bailey · Answer

Might 
 
 ([A-Z][a-z&agrave;&acirc;&eacute;&egrave;&ecirc;&euml;&iuml;&icirc;&ocirc;&ugrave;&ucirc;&ccedil;]*\s*)+ 
 
 work? (I realise you could omit the circumflexed characters if need be) 
 ([A-z][a-z&agrave;&acirc;&eacute;&egrave;&ecirc;&euml;&iuml;&icirc;&ocirc;&ugrave;&ucirc;&ccedil;]*)+ 
 
 would work for words starting with either upper or lower case.

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RegEx and capitalized placeables/tokens containing accented characters

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