From: Stefan Lang <perfectly.normal.hacker@...>
Date: 2011-11-28T07:18:28+09:00
Subject: [ANN] UnicodeUtils 1.2.2 - case conversion, normalization and more

UnicodeUtils implements Unicode algorithms for case conversion,
normalization, text segmentation and more in pure Ruby code.

New in this release:
====================

Added the following UnicodeUtils methods:

* east_asian_width
* display_width
* default_ignorable_char_q
* gc
* graphic_char_q
* general_category
* char_type
* char_display_width
* debug

Usage
=====

Ruby 1.9.1 or higher is required.

  $ gem install unicode_utils

  require "unicode_utils/display_width"
  UnicodeUtils.display_width("Matzにっき") # => 10

  $ irb -r unicode_utils/u
  irb(main):001:0> U.debug("Matzにっき")
   Char | Ordinal | Name                     | General Category | UTF-8
  ------+---------+--------------------------+------------------+----------
   "M"  |      4D | LATIN CAPITAL LETTER M   | Uppercase_Letter | 4D
   "a"  |      61 | LATIN SMALL LETTER A     | Lowercase_Letter | 61
   "t"  |      74 | LATIN SMALL LETTER T     | Lowercase_Letter | 74
   "z"  |      7A | LATIN SMALL LETTER Z     | Lowercase_Letter | 7A
   "に" |    306B | HIRAGANA LETTER NI       | Other_Letter     | E3 81 AB
   "っ" |    3063 | HIRAGANA LETTER SMALL TU | Other_Letter     | E3 81 A3
   "き" |    304D | HIRAGANA LETTER KI       | Other_Letter     | E3 81 8D

Documentation & Source
======================

  http://unicode-utils.rubyforge.org
  http://github.com/lang/unicode_utils

Issues
======

It should work on all Ruby 1.9.1 implementations or higher
independently of operating system. If not, please report
it on github.

-- 
Stefan Lang