diff --git a/pyxform/parsing/expression.py b/pyxform/parsing/expression.py
index c43a5dac..9ce27f87 100644
--- a/pyxform/parsing/expression.py
+++ b/pyxform/parsing/expression.py
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 # They in turn adapted it from https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml/#NT-NameStartChar
 # and https://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml-names/#NT-NCName
 namestartchar = (
-    r"(?:[A-Z]|_|[a-z]|\xc0-\xd6]|[\xd8-\xf6]|[\xf8-\u02ff]|"
+    r"(?:[A-Z]|_|[a-z]|[\xc0-\xd6]|[\xd8-\xf6]|[\xf8-\u02ff]|"
     + r"[\u0370-\u037d]|[\u037f-\u1fff]|[\u200c-\u200d]|[\u2070-\u218f]|"
     + r"[\u2c00-\u2fef]|[\u3001-\uD7FF]|[\uF900-\uFDCF]|[\uFDF0-\uFFFD]"
     + r"|[\U00010000-\U000EFFFF])"
diff --git a/tests/test_survey_element.py b/tests/test_survey_element.py
index 41754411..5c2d6880 100644
--- a/tests/test_survey_element.py
+++ b/tests/test_survey_element.py
@@ -75,3 +75,7 @@ def test_validate__invalid_name__error(self):
         self.assertEqual(
             ErrorCode.NAMES_009.value.format(name=co.NAME), err.exception.args[0]
         )
+
+    def test_validate__name_in_valid_unicode_range__ok(self):
+        """Should not raise an error if the 'name' includes valid unicode characters."""
+        SurveyElement(name="SäöüÄÖÜß", label="Q1").validate()