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I have regex /^\S.*$/ that matches almost any charset including Chinese, Arabic, Cyrillic, etc. characters (which is important for my use case). The problem with this regex is it also matches special characters. I don't need other special characters except ,, ., ', and -. How should I modify my regex?

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You might be looking for \p{L} which "matches any kind of letter from any language" according to Regex101.com

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Also see this question: stackoverflow.com/questions/14891129/…
Pardon my ignorance but why does /\p{L}/.test("مجيد الألم "); return false in Node?
No need to apologize! Looks like \p expressions probably just aren't supported in the default JS environment. This library supports it: regular-expressions.info/xregexp.html MY apologies, I assumed it would work after testing it in regex101
Looks like someone extracted the \p specific functionality here: npmjs.com/package/js-regex-pl And according to this answer, JS will support it starting in ECMAScript 2018

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