Unicode::Types

Determine the basic type of codepoints. This can be one of:

• Graphic
• Format
• Control
• Private-use
• Surrogate
• Noncharacter
• Reserved

Unicode version: 16.0.0 (September 2024)

Supported Rubies: 3.3, 3.2, 3.1, 3.0

Old Rubies that might still work: 2.7, 2.6, 2.5, 2.4, 2.3, 2.X

gem "unicode-types"

require "unicode/types"

# All general types of a string
Unicode::Types.types("A\tb") # => ["Control", "Graphic"]

# Also aliased as .of
Unicode::Types.of("\u{FFFFF}") # => ["Noncharacter"]

# Single codepoint
Unicode::Types.type("\u{FFFFD}") # => "Reserved"

The list of types is always sorted alphabetically.

See unicode-x for more Unicode related micro libraries.

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