charwidth

Normalize Unicode fullwidth / halfwidth (zenkaku / hankaku) characters.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'charwidth'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install charwidth

Usage

require "charwidth"
Charwidth.normalize("Ｈｅｌｌｏ，　Ｗｏｒｌｄ！") # => "Hello, World!"
Charwidth.normalize!("Ｈｅｌｌｏ，　Ｗｏｒｌｄ！") # destructive
Charwidth.normalize("｢ﾊﾛｰﾜｰﾙﾄﾞ｣") # => "「ハローワールド」"

Or extend String class.

require "charwidth/string"
"Ｈｅｌｌｏ，　Ｗｏｒｌｄ！".normalize_charwidth # => "Hello, World!"
"Ｈｅｌｌｏ，　Ｗｏｒｌｄ！".normalize_charwidth! # => destructive
"｢ﾊﾛｰﾜｰﾙﾄﾞ｣".normalize_charwidth # => "「ハローワールド」"

ActiveRecord integration

Write require "charwidth/active_record" to normalize all values of ActiveRecord attributes.

require "charwidth/active_record"

class Article < ActiveRecord::Base
end

a = Article.new(title: "Ｈｅｌｌｏ，　Ｗｏｒｌｄ！")
a.title # => "Hello, World!"

CLI

# Call charwidth command with arguments
$ charwidth "Ｈｅｌｌｏ，　Ｗｏｒｌｄ！"
Hello, World!
# Or as STDIN
$ echo "Ｈｅｌｌｏ，　Ｗｏｒｌｄ！" | charwidth
Hello, World!

Contributing

1. Fork it
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 new Pull Request