From: Stefan Lang <perfectly.normal.hacker@...>
Date: 2012-03-07T11:20:42+09:00
Subject: [ANN] UnicodeUtils 1.3.0 - case conversion, normalization and more

UnicodeUtils - Unicode algorithms in pure Ruby code.

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

Updated to Unicode 6.1.0.

New methods: code_point_type, name_aliases, sid (string identifier)

New constants: UNICODE_VERSION

Usage
=====

Ruby 1.9.1 or higher is required.

  $ gem install unicode_utils

  require "unicode_utils/display_width"
  UnicodeUtils.display_width("にっき") # => 6

  $ irb -r unicode_utils/u

  irb(main):001:0> U.sid 0xfeff
  => "BYTE ORDER MARK"

  irb(main):002:0> U.debug "Matz\u{2029}にっき"
   Char | Ordinal | Sid                      | 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
   N/A  |    2029 | PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR      | Paragraph_Separator | E2 80 A9
   "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
  => nil

  irb(main):003:0> U.casefold("Straße") == U.casefold("STRASSE")
  => true

  irb(main):004:0> U.titlecase("istanbul", :tr)
  => "İstanbul"

  irb(main):005:0> U.nfkc "finland"
  => "finland"

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 http://github.com/lang/unicode_utils/issues?state=open

-- 
Stefan Lang