Validation on special characters

Hello,

    I'm trying to make a validation that catches special latin chars that cause Mysql errors.

Here's what I've been trying so far:

validates_format_of :title, :with=>/\A[^#]/, :message=>'must not start with a "#"', :if => Proc.new {|page| page.title && page.title.size > 0 }

  validates_exclusion_of :title, :in => 'π ≤ ≥ ∫ √ ≈ Ω ∞ ≠ ∑ ∂ ∆ ˙ ˚', :message => "Title contains invalid characters"    When I throw these characters into the textfield, they aren't dectected and the sql error is thrown.