How to get all spacial characters in a string in to an array using jquery

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Hello,

Can any one please provide me a solution to add all special characters into array.

For eg:

var description='~Special & Characters è *';

I need the below array

var specialCharacters= ["~", "&", "è",'*'];

What I have tried:

Below is the way i implemented in C# :

string entityName ="abc def & * ()@";		   
		    entityName=entityName.ToStr().Replace(" ", "");
            var allowablespecialCharacters = @"#$%^*";
            string patterns = @"[^A-Za-z0-9" + specialCharacters + "]";
            var b = Regex.Matches(entityName, patterns, RegexOptions.IgnoreCase | RegexOptions.CultureInvariant | RegexOptions.Compiled);
            return b.Count > 0 ? true : false;

The same thing i need in Client Side.