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?

Answer 1

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

See POSIX Bracket Expressions for more details.