From 969b4fb274b0bb5234b8fe4199cc07dc1acb536e Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: aksonov <aksonov@gmail.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Feb 2018 10:13:44 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] use xregexp to handle unicode alphabet

---
 package.json | 5 ++++-
 validate.js  | 3 ++-
 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/package.json b/package.json
index b5f9e2f..578e4a9 100644
--- a/package.json
+++ b/package.json
@@ -40,5 +40,8 @@
     "grunt-template-jasmine-istanbul": "0.4.0",
     "coveralls": "2.11.9"
   },
-  "license": "MIT"
+  "license": "MIT",
+  "dependencies": {
+    "xregexp": "^4.1.1"
+  }
 }
diff --git a/validate.js b/validate.js
index 610d0bc..90f2ff5 100644
--- a/validate.js
+++ b/validate.js
@@ -6,6 +6,7 @@
  * For all details and documentation:
  * http://validatejs.org/
  */
+ var XRegExp = require('xregexp');
 
 (function(exports, module, define) {
   "use strict";
@@ -1001,7 +1002,7 @@
       }
 
       if (v.isString(pattern)) {
-        pattern = new RegExp(options.pattern, options.flags);
+        pattern = XRegExp(options.pattern, options.flags);
       }
       match = pattern.exec(value);
       if (!match || match[0].length != value.length) {