struts Validator framework -URGENT Pls...

[runa choudhary <ru...@yahoo.co.in>]

Hi All
Its very urgent for me.I am struck on this point at a very critical point of my project.
I am using Validator framework of struts 1.1 In Validator.xml file for my mask variable i am using regular
expression so as the string to accept alphanum+special char-.,-,",\s .nowI want my regular expression to have scope to accept french chars
too .so i am using unicode to represent that but its not working.
the problem is when i write my regex in validator.xml file as [A-Za-z0-9-.\"\s] its fine but as soon as i write [A-Za-z0-9-.\"\s\u00E0] its not working
I even tried to replace \u00E0 with\x{E0}(hex) its still not working.
Please kindly help me out what should i do.(somewhere i read that old version of validator framework supported this)
i couldn't get that how come that new version will remove this 
and secondly if this is so from where will
i get that version and which version.I request  u all to  Please help me out .Its really very urgent.
Thanx .Wating for someone's response before monday
ThanKs & Regards
Runa

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