accepting acents in regex android -

mates...

i having troubles pass through regex accepting accents in android... things have try java not working properly, , android don't want our accented vocals ..

i have following regex:

pattern pattern = pattern.compile("[a-za-zñÑáéíóúÁÉÍÓÚ]+");

any tip of how include ñ , accents vocals in android?

thanks in advance...

here our validation function:

public static boolean validarnombres(string nametovalidate){ byte step = 1; byte minwords = 2; byte maxwords = 5; boolean validname = false; string[] aux;  matcher matcher = null; pattern pattern = pattern.compile("[\\p{l}\\p{m}]+");  aux = nametovalidate.split(" ");  //paso 2: check name has 2 5 words if(aux.length >= minwords && aux.length <= maxwords){ step++; matcher = pattern.matcher(nametovalidate); }  //paso 3: check name matches out regex if(step==2 && matcher.matches()){ validname = true; }  return validname; } 

edit: think found mistake... not including blank space bettwen first , second name ... works fine when check word, not full name... now.... whats code include blank space on our regex?, please

thanks

to validate string consisting of 2 5 words separated whitespace(s), may use

public static boolean validarnombres(string nametovalidate) {      return nametovalidate.matches("[\\p{l}\\p{m}]+(?:\\s[\\p{l}\\p{m}]+){1,4}"); } 

the regex anchored default when used .matches() method, no need adding ^ , $.

pattern details:

• [\\p{l}\\p{m}]+ - 1 or more letters or/and diacritics
• (?:\\s[\\p{l}\\p{m}]+){1,4} - 1 4 (so, 2 5 in total) sequences of:
  • \\s - single whitespace
  • [\\p{l}\\p{m}]+ - 1 or more letters or/and diacritics

see regex demo.