Matching Unicode letter characters in PCRE/PHP

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I think the problem is much simpler than that: You forgot to specify the u modifier. The Unicode character properties are only available in UTF-8 mode.

Your regex should be:

// unicode letters, apostrophe, hyphen, space
$namePattern = '/^[-\' \p{L}]+$/u';

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