diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
index 9a6bac0..a21b20a 100644
--- a/CHANGELOG.md
+++ b/CHANGELOG.md
@@ -5,6 +5,10 @@ This project adheres to [Semantic Versioning](http://semver.org/).
 
 ## [Unreleased][unreleased]
 
+### Fixed
+
+- Fix issue #2: get rid of `java.lang.String.stripLeading` to get backward compatibility with JDK 1.8
+
 ## 0.2.2 - 2020-09-29
 
 ### Fixed
diff --git a/src/main/java/fr/evidev/netbeans/caseconverter/converters/ToTitleCaseConverter.java b/src/main/java/fr/evidev/netbeans/caseconverter/converters/ToTitleCaseConverter.java
index 3f77b0e..496af76 100644
--- a/src/main/java/fr/evidev/netbeans/caseconverter/converters/ToTitleCaseConverter.java
+++ b/src/main/java/fr/evidev/netbeans/caseconverter/converters/ToTitleCaseConverter.java
@@ -32,7 +32,8 @@ public String convert(String text) {
         String result = StringUtils.capitalizePattern(text, "[\\s_-]+[a-zA-Z]");
         result = StringUtils.capitalizeFirstChar(result);
         result = StringUtils.prefixPatternWith(result, "[A-Z]", " ");
-        result = StringUtils.replaceDuplicatesWithUnique(result, "[\\s_-]+", " ").stripLeading();
+        result = StringUtils.replaceDuplicatesWithUnique(result, "[\\s_-]+", " ");
+        result = StringUtils.stripLeadingPatternFrom(result, " ");
 
         return result;
     }