extract words in string with unicode characters

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In javascript (nodejs) I need to index text strings with unicode characters, i.e given a string like:

"Bonjour à tous le monde, 
je voulais être le premier à vous dire:
  -'comment ça va'
  -<est-ce qu'il fait beau?>" 

I want to get the following array of words :

 ["Bonjour", "à", "tous", "le", "monde", "je", "voulais", "être", ... "beau"]

How can I achieve that using regex or any other means ?

ps: I installed and tried the xregexp module which provides unicode support for javascript, but being utterly useless with regexes in general, I could not go very far ...

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