Feature #10152: String#strip doesn't remove non-breaking space

• Status: Open
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• Target version: -

String#strip doesn't remove non-breaking space.

2.1.2 :001 > "\u00A0".strip
 => " " 

[nobu (Nobuyoshi Nakada)]

• Tracker changed from Bug to Feature
• Description updated (diff)

[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

• Related to Feature #10085: Add non-ASCII case conversion to String#upcase/downcase/swapcase/capitalize added

[matz (Yukihiro Matsumoto)]

Current Ruby does not support non ASCII spaces. Maybe 2.2+ would.

Matz.

[ojab (ojab ojab)]

There is an issue not only for non-breaking space, but also for other unicode spaces, see #7845. For example (excerpt from rails String#squish testcase) %{\u205f\u3000 A string surrounded by various unicode spaces, with tabs(\t\t), newlines(\n\n), unicode nextlines(\u0085\u0085) and many spaces( ). \u00a0\u2007}.
So I think that this ticket should be closed in favour of #7845.