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Javascript developers can test regular expressions against all unicode characters with my Javascript RegExp Unicode Character Class Tester

Very useful if you need to know exactly which characters  match a RegExp like /\s/

Interesting results from Firefox 2

• \d matches 159 digit characters from many alphabets (not just Basic Latin)
• \s matches 22 different types of whitespace: [\t\n\v\f\r \u00a0\u2000\u2001\u2002\u2003\u2004\u2005\u2006\u2007\u2008\u2009\u200a\u200b\u2028\u2029\u3000]

Useful docs:

• The RegExp documentation on the Mozilla Developers Center \
• The Unicode Basic Multilingual Plane (chars 0 to 65535)

Hope you find this useful and feel free to leave comments.