Match unicode text with Ruby 1.8.7

Question

I have a regex that is used for matching unicode string and works pretty cool with all versions of Ruby newer than 1.8.7:

/[\p{L}\p{Space}]+/u

How it can be achieved with Ruby 1.8.7?

According to this answer [What is the difference between Ruby 1.8 and Ruby 1.9](http://stackoverflow.com/a/21621/626273), Ruby learned Unicode properties in 1.9, so `\p{Space}` should not be working in Ruby < 1.9. Before Posix classes was used like `[:space:]`. — stema, Jul 24 '13 at 07:55
You mean that it works with Ruby *newer* than 1.8.7, right? Not *older*? — Darshan Rivka Whittle, Jul 24 '13 at 07:59

score 1 · Accepted Answer · answered Jul 24 '13 at 08:07

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Unicode properties were added in Ruby with version 1.9, so in older versions you have to use Posix classes like [:space:] or [:alpha:]

answered Jul 24 '13 at 08:07

stema

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