Unicode Character & String Width

Shard Provides functionality to get fixed width of the unicode character or string.

For more information, refer to EAST ASIAN WIDTH Unicode Standard Annex #11 (Unicode version 13.0.0).

Installation

1. Add the dependency to your shard.yml:

   dependencies:
     uniwidth:
       github: naqvis/uni_char_width

2. Run shards install

Usage

Code try to identify the locale and set east_asian property accordingly. You can enforce the code to enable CJK mode by setting EASTASIAN environment variable to "1". strict_emoji_neutral property is enabled by default, but this should be set to false for broken Fonts.

Module UnicodeCharWidth provided methods uses the default settings (stated above), if you need to tweak the settings, instantiate an instance of UnicodeCharWidth::Condition class with respective settings.

require "uniwidth"

# String/Char width
pp UnicodeCharWidth.width("つのだ☆HIRO") # => 12 on CJK locale

# Truncate
pp UnicodeCharWidth.truncate("つのだ☆HIRO",10,"...") # => "つのだ..."

# Padding
pp UnicodeCharWidth.pad_left("あxいうえお", 15) # => "    あxいうえお"
pp UnicodeCharWidth.pad_right("あxいうえお", 15) # => "あxいうえお    "

...

Refer to specs for more examples.

Development

To run all tests:

crystal spec

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/naqvis/uni_char_width/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b my-new-feature)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some feature')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin my-new-feature)
5. Create a new Pull Request

Contributors

• Ali Naqvi - creator and maintainer