How to use şŞıİçÇöÖüÜĞğ characters in a regular expression in Ruby?

Question

I tried using a regular expression to capture names:

r[1].scan(/^([A-Z]|[ŞİÇÖÜĞ])([a-z]|[şŞıİçÇöÖüÜĞğ])*\s([A-Z]|[ŞİÇÖÜĞ])([a-z]|[şŞıİçÇöÖüÜĞğ])*/u)

But, it gives me an error:

syntax error, unexpected $end, expecting ')'
...atches = r[1].scan(/^([A-Z]|[ŞİÇÖÜĞ])([a-z]|[şŞ�...
...  

I see that the problem is the Turkish characters I'm using. Is it possible to use unicode values of the characters in regexp? How can I use these problematic characters in this regexp?

Answer 1

1. Use ruby 1.9
2. Go with /\p{Word}+\p{Space}\p{Word}*/