I've already read all the articles in here which touch a similar problem but still don't get any solution working. In my case I want to wrap each word of a string with a span. The words contain special characters like 'äüö...'
What I am doing at the moment is:
var textWrap = text.replace(/\b([a-zA-Z0-9ßÄÖÜäöüÑñÉéÈèÁáÀàÂâŶĈĉĜĝŷÊêÔôÛûŴŵ-]+)\b/g, "<span>$1</span>");But what happens is that if the äüñ or whatever NON-Ascii character is at the end or at the beginning it also acts like a boundary. Being within a word these characters don't act as a boundary.
'Ärmelkanal' becomes Ä<span>rmelkanal</span> but should be <span>Ärmelkanal</span>'Käse'works fine... becomes <span>Käse</span>'diré' becomes <span>dir</span>é but should be <span>diré</span>Any advice would be very appreciated. I need to do that on clientside. By the way, did I mention that I hate regular expressions?
Thank You very much!