I wouldn't use a regex directly - I would de-regionalize my data first. This is the way I do it:
public static String RemoveDiacritics(this String s)
{
String normalizedString = s.Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormD);
StringBuilder stringBuilder = new StringBuilder();
for (int i = 0; i < normalizedString.Length; i++)
{
Char c = normalizedString[i];
if (CharUnicodeInfo.GetUnicodeCategory(c) != UnicodeCategory.NonSpacingMark)
{
stringBuilder.Append(c);
}
}
return stringBuilder.ToString().Normalize(NormalizationForm.FormC);
}
You can now use a "normal" regex to check your data only contains valid name characters [0-9a-zA-z']