title: Need regex to disallow unicode characters from a form text area using javascript
body: <p>I am trying to disallow unicode characters from a form text area where the data is either entered manually or copy-pasted. I tried the following regex - </p>
  
  <pre><code>regex: /^[A-z&amp;#209;&amp;#241;0-9]*$/i
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This is disallowing all the special characters like hyphen(-) too. But what I need is to remove only the unicode character like the diamond symbol in this data - pr�s-*.</p>
  
  <p>Can someone please help. If there is any plugin that can achieve this, please let me know. Thanks in advance</p>