Apparently Java's Regex flavor counts Umlauts and other special characters as non-"word characters" when I use Regex.

        "TESTÜTEST".replaceAll( "\\W", "" )

returns "TESTTEST" for me. What I want is for only all truly non-"word characters" to be removed. Any way to do this without having something along the lines of

         "[^A-Za-z0-9äöüÄÖÜßéèáàúùóò]"

only to realize I forgot ô?

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