# Unicode in route regular expression

**URL:** <https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode-in-route-regular-expression/138362>\
**Category:** Rails\
**Created:** [May 22, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode-in-route-regular-expression/138362 "2008-05-22T10:38:12Z")\
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**Author:** ![evensoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/e/e9c0ed/32.png) [@evensoul](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/evensoul)\
**Post date:** [May 22, 2008, 10:38am UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/unicode-in-route-regular-expression/138362/1 "2008-05-22T10:38:12Z")

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Hi,  
I’d like to have a route requirement which is something like :city =\> /  
[A-Za-z]+/, but it should accept UTF-8 word characters as well? Does  
anyone know how I could accomplish this?

```
Marko
```