diff --git a/source/net/filebot/similarity/DateMatcher.java b/source/net/filebot/similarity/DateMatcher.java
index 4f11c3d4..509c6720 100644
--- a/source/net/filebot/similarity/DateMatcher.java
+++ b/source/net/filebot/similarity/DateMatcher.java
@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ public class DateMatcher {
 
 	private static class DateFormatPattern implements DatePattern {
 
-		protected final Pattern space = Pattern.compile("[\\p{Punct}\\p{Space}]+");
+		protected final Pattern space = Pattern.compile("[^\\p{Alnum}]+");
 
 		protected final Pattern pattern;
 		protected final String dateFormat;