Validation on special characters

Hello,

I'm trying to make a validation that catches special latin chars 

that
cause Mysql errors.

Here’s what I’ve been trying so far:

validates_format_of :title, :with=>/\A[^#]/, :message=>‘must not start
with
a “#”’, :if => Proc.new {|page| page.title && page.title.size > 0 }

validates_exclusion_of :title, :in => ‘Ï€ ≤ ≥ ∫ √ ≈ Ω ∞ ≠∑ ∂ ∆ Ë™ Ëš’,
:message => “Title contains invalid characters”

When I throw these characters into the textfield, they aren’t dectected
and
the sql error is thrown.


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