diff --git a/src/jsonpath_lexer.xrl b/src/jsonpath_lexer.xrl
index 97347ae..1429856 100644
--- a/src/jsonpath_lexer.xrl
+++ b/src/jsonpath_lexer.xrl
@@ -19,7 +19,7 @@
 Definitions.
 
 WHITESPACE = [\s\t\n\r]
-IDENTIFIER  = [a-zA-Z_][a-zA-Z0-9_]*
+IDENTIFIER  = [^'".*0-9()$?,>=<\-\:\@\[\]\s\t\n\r][^'".*()$?,>=<\-\:\@\[\]\s\t\n\r]*
 INTEGER = \-?[0-9]+
 STRING = \"[^"]*\"
 LSTRING = \'[^']*\'
@@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ LSTRING = \'[^']*\'
 Rules.
 
 {WHITESPACE}+ : skip_token.
-{IDENTIFIER}  : {token, {identifier,  TokenLine, list_to_binary(TokenChars)}}.
+{IDENTIFIER}  : {token, {identifier,  TokenLine, unicode:characters_to_binary(TokenChars)}}.
 {INTEGER}  : {token, {integer,  TokenLine, list_to_integer(TokenChars)}}.
 {STRING}  : {token, {string,  TokenLine, string_to_binary(TokenChars)}}.
 {LSTRING}  : {token, {string,  TokenLine, string_to_binary(TokenChars)}}.
diff --git a/test/ex_json_path_test.exs b/test/ex_json_path_test.exs
index bcc3549..74c56e3 100644
--- a/test/ex_json_path_test.exs
+++ b/test/ex_json_path_test.exs
@@ -719,12 +719,5 @@ defmodule ExJSONPathTest do
 
       assert {:error, %ParsingError{message: "" <> _msg}} = ExJSONPath.eval(array, path)
     end
-
-    test "with unexpected chars" do
-      map = %{"a" => %{"b" => 42}}
-      path = ~s{ùùù}
-
-      assert {:error, %ParsingError{message: "" <> _msg}} = ExJSONPath.eval(map, path)
-    end
   end
 end
diff --git a/test/jsonpath_lexer_test.exs b/test/jsonpath_lexer_test.exs
index 07f4a7d..cb8d189 100644
--- a/test/jsonpath_lexer_test.exs
+++ b/test/jsonpath_lexer_test.exs
@@ -52,4 +52,34 @@ defmodule ExJSONPath.Lexer do
                 {:identifier, 1, "value"}
               ], 1}
   end
+
+  # https://cburgmer.github.io/json-path-comparison/results/dot_notation_with_non_ASCII_key.html
+  test "unicode tokenization" do
+    assert :jsonpath_lexer.string('$.ユニコード') ==
+             {:ok, [{:"$", 1}, {:., 1}, {:identifier, 1, "ユニコード"}], 1}
+  end
+
+  test "mixed unicode and ascii tokenization" do
+    assert :jsonpath_lexer.string('$.ユnikodo') ==
+             {:ok, [{:"$", 1}, {:., 1}, {:identifier, 1, "ユnikodo"}], 1}
+  end
+
+  test "mixed ascii and unicode tokenization" do
+    assert :jsonpath_lexer.string('$.yuニコード') ==
+             {:ok, [{:"$", 1}, {:., 1}, {:identifier, 1, "yuニコード"}], 1}
+  end
+
+  test "latin accents and ascii tokenization" do
+    assert :jsonpath_lexer.string('$.à.è.i') ==
+             {:ok,
+              [
+                {:"$", 1},
+                {:., 1},
+                {:identifier, 1, "à"},
+                {:., 1},
+                {:identifier, 1, "è"},
+                {:., 1},
+                {:identifier, 1, "i"}
+              ], 1}
+  end
 end