JAVA Regex Illegal Characters

Hello - I am trying to find a list of all illegal characters which have to be escaped in JAVA Regex pattern matching but I cannot find a complete list.
Also I understand that when doing the replaceall function that there is a special list of characters which can't be used for that as well, which also have to be escaped differently.
If anyone has access to a full complete list as to when to escape and how I would greatly appreciated it!
Thanks,
Dan

I also noticed this below link:
http://java.sun.com/docs/books/tutorial/extra/regex/literals.html
It said the following characters are meta-characters in regex API:
( [ { \ ^ $ | ) ? * + .
But it also says the below:
Note: In certain situations the special characters listed above will not be treated as metacharacters. You'll encounter this as you learn more about how regular expressions are constructed. You can, however, use this list to check whether or not a specific character will ever be considered a metacharacter. For example, the characters ! @ and # never carry a special meaning.
Does anyone know if there would be any issues if I escaped when a character didn't need to be escaped?

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