I currently use re.findall to find and isolate words after the '#' character for hash tags in a string: hashtags = re.findall(r'#([A-Za-z0-9_]+)', str1) It searches str1 and finds all the hashtags. This works however it doesn't account for accented characters like these for example: áéíóúñü¿. If one of these letters are in str1, it will save the hashtag up until the letter before it. So for example, #yogenfrüz would be #yogenfr. I need to be able to account for all accented letters that range from German, Dutch, French and Spanish so that I can save hashtags like #yogenfrüz How can I go about doing this Continue reading...