Updated taxonomy filtering REGEX and string replacements for international character support

Author: bjorn2404

dist/assets/js/plugins/storeLocator/jquery.storelocator.js

@@ -985,7 +985,7 @@
 
 						if (typeof data[k] !== 'undefined') {
 							for (var l = 0; l < filterTests.length; l++) {
-								exclusiveTest[l] = new RegExp(filterTests[l], 'i').test(data[k].replace(/([^\x00-\x7F]|[.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, ''));
+								exclusiveTest[l] = new RegExp(filterTests[l], 'i').test(data[k].replace(/([.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, ''));
 							}
 						}
 
@@ -995,7 +995,7 @@
 					}
 					// Inclusive filtering
 					else {
-						if (typeof data[k] === 'undefined' || !(new RegExp(filters[k].join(''), 'i').test(data[k].replace(/([^\x00-\x7F]|[.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, '')))) {
+						if (typeof data[k] === 'undefined' || !(new RegExp(filters[k].join(''), 'i').test(data[k].replace(/([.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, '')))) {
 							filterTest = false;
 						}
 					}
@@ -2800,7 +2800,7 @@
 							if (!taxFilters[k]) {
 								taxFilters[k] = [];
 							}
-							taxFilters[k][z] = '(?=.*\\b' + filters[k][z].replace(/([^\x00-\x7F]|[.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, '') + '\\b)';
+							taxFilters[k][z] = '(?:^|\\s)' + filters[k][z].replace(/([.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, '');
 						}
 					}
 				}

dist/assets/js/plugins/storeLocator/jquery.storelocator.min.js

@@ -39,6 +39,7 @@ filtering.
 
 * Added featuredDistance setting to restrict featured locations by a specified distance (number value should be used).
 * Updated bundled version of Handlebars to v4.5.1 due to security issue.
+* Updated taxonomy filtering REGEX and string replacements for international character support.
 
 ### Version 3.0.1
 

readme.md

@@ -981,7 +981,7 @@
 
 						if (typeof data[k] !== 'undefined') {
 							for (var l = 0; l < filterTests.length; l++) {
-								exclusiveTest[l] = new RegExp(filterTests[l], 'i').test(data[k].replace(/([^\x00-\x7F]|[.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, ''));
+								exclusiveTest[l] = new RegExp(filterTests[l], 'i').test(data[k].replace(/([.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, ''));
 							}
 						}
 
@@ -991,7 +991,7 @@
 					}
 					// Inclusive filtering
 					else {
-						if (typeof data[k] === 'undefined' || !(new RegExp(filters[k].join(''), 'i').test(data[k].replace(/([^\x00-\x7F]|[.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, '')))) {
+						if (typeof data[k] === 'undefined' || !(new RegExp(filters[k].join(''), 'i').test(data[k].replace(/([.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, '')))) {
 							filterTest = false;
 						}
 					}
@@ -2796,7 +2796,7 @@
 							if (!taxFilters[k]) {
 								taxFilters[k] = [];
 							}
-							taxFilters[k][z] = '(?=.*\\b' + filters[k][z].replace(/([^\x00-\x7F]|[.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, '') + '\\b)';
+							taxFilters[k][z] = '(?:^|\\s)' + filters[k][z].replace(/([.*+?^=!:${}()|\[\]\/\\]|&\s+)/g, '');
 						}
 					}
 				}