CHANGELOG¶ ↑

2.6.0¶ ↑

• Unicode 16

2.5.0¶ ↑

• Unicode 15.1

2.4.2¶ ↑

More performance improvements:

• Optimize lookup of first 4096 codepoints

• Avoid overwrite lookup if no overwrites are set

2.4.1¶ ↑

• Improve general performance!

• Further improve performance for ASCII strings

You should really upgrade - it's much faster now!

2.4.0¶ ↑

• Improve performance for ASCII-only strings, by @fatkodima

• Require Ruby 2.4

2.3.0¶ ↑

• Unicode 15.0

2.2.0¶ ↑

• Add Hangul Jamo Extended-B block to zero-width chars, thanks @ninjalj #22

2.1.0¶ ↑

• Unicode 14.0

2.0.0¶ ↑

• Release 2.0.0

• Supports Ruby 3.0

2.0.0.pre2¶ ↑

• Update 2.0 branch to Unicode 13

2.0.0.pre1¶ ↑

Will be published as non-pre version on rubygems.org when Ruby 3.0 is released (December 2020)

• Introduce new class-based API, which remembers your string-width configuration. See README for details.

• Remove auto-loading of string extension

• You can: require "unicode/display_width/string_ext" to continue to use the string extension

• The manual opt-out require "unicode/display_width/no_string_ext" is not needed anymore and will issue a warning in the future

• Remove (already deprecated) String#display_size and String#display_width aliases

Refactorings / Internal Changes:

• Freeze string literals

• The Unicode::DisplayWidth now is class, instead of a module, this enables the new config-object API

1.8.0¶ ↑

• Unicode 14.0 (last release of 1.x)

1.7.0¶ ↑

• Unicode 13

1.6.1¶ ↑

• Fix that ambiguous and overwrite options where ignored for emoji-measuring

1.6.0¶ ↑

• Unicode 12.1

1.5.0¶ ↑

• Unicode 12

1.4.1¶ ↑

• Only bundle required lib/* and data/* files in actual rubygem, patch by @tas50

1.4.0¶ ↑

• Unicode 11

1.3.3¶ ↑

• Replace Gem::Util.gunzip with direct zlib implementation This removes the dependency on rubygems, fixes #17

1.3.2¶ ↑

• Explicitly load rubygems/util, fixes regression in 1.3.1 (autoload issue)

1.3.1¶ ↑

• Use Gem::Util for gunzip, removes deprecation warning, patch by @Schwad

1.3.0¶ ↑

• Unicode 10

1.2.1¶ ↑

• Fix bug that emoji: true would fail for emoji without modifier

1.2.0¶ ↑

• Add zero-width codepoint ranges: U+2060..U+206F, U+FFF0..U+FFF8, U+E0000..U+E0FFF

• Add full-witdh codepoint ranges: U+3400..U+4DBF, U+4E00..U+9FFF, U+F900..U+FAFF, U+20000..U+2FFFD, U+30000..U+3FFFD

• Experimental emoji support using the unicode-emoji gem

• Fix minor bug in index compression scheme

1.1.3¶ ↑

• Fix that non-UTF-8 encodings do not throw errors, patch by @windwiny

1.1.2¶ ↑

• Reduce memory consumption and increase performance, patch by @rrosenblum

1.1.1¶ ↑

• Always load index into memory, fixes #9

1.1.0¶ ↑

• Support Unicode 9.0

1.0.5¶ ↑

• Actually include new index from 1.0.4

1.0.4¶ ↑

• New index format (much smaller) and internal API changes

• Move index generation to a builder plugin for the unicoder gem

• No public API changes

1.0.3¶ ↑

• Avoid circular dependency warning

1.0.2¶ ↑

• Fix error that gemspec might be invalid under some circumstances (see gh#6)

1.0.1¶ ↑

• Inofficially allow Ruby 1.9

1.0.0¶ ↑

• Faster than 0.3.1

• Advanced determination of character width

• This includes: Treat width of most chars of general categories (Mn, Me, Cf) as 0

• This includes: Introduce list of characters with special widths

• Allow custom overrides for specific codepoints

• Set required Ruby version to 2.0

• Add NO_STRING_EXT mode to disable monkey patching

• Internal API & index format changed drastically

• Remove require 'unicode/display_size' (use 'unicode/display_width' instead)

0.3.1¶ ↑

• Faster than 0.3.0

• Deprecate usage of aliases: String#display_size and String#display_length

• Eliminate Ruby warnings (@amatsuda)

0.3.0¶ ↑

• Update EastAsianWidth from 7.0 to 8.0

• Add rake task to update EastAsianWidth.txt

• Move code to generate index from library to Rakefile

• Update project's meta files

• Deprecate requiring 'unicode-display_size'

0.2.0¶ ↑

• Update EastAsianWidth from 6.0 to 7.0

• Don't build index table automatically when not available

• Don't include EastAsianWidth.txt in gem (only index)

0.1.0¶ ↑

• Fix github issue #1

0.1.0¶ ↑

• Initial release