Unicode Script Detector

Detect all Unicode scripts in a text.

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "unicode_script_detector"

Or install it globally:

$ gem install unicode_script_detector

Detect all the characters of a string

UnicodeScriptDetector.detect_characters "Hel6б"

#Output:
[#<UnicodeScriptDetector::Character:0x00007768fefdead8 @char="H", @name="Latin", @script=:Latin>,
 #<UnicodeScriptDetector::Character:0x00007768fefdea10 @char="e", @name="Latin", @script=:Latin>,
 #<UnicodeScriptDetector::Character:0x00007768fefde970 @char="l", @name="Latin", @script=:Latin>,
 #<UnicodeScriptDetector::Character:0x00007768fefde8d0 @char="6", @name="Digit", @script=:Digit>,
 #<UnicodeScriptDetector::Character:0x00007768fefde830 @char="б", @name="Cyrillic", @script=:Cyrillic>]

Detect if a script contains certain scripts

# This will return true because it contains Latin and Cyrillic
UnicodeScriptDetector.contains? "Hellб🔥", [:Latin, :Cyrillic]

Detect if a script contains only certain scripts

# This will return false because it contains an Emoji as well
UnicodeScriptDetector.contains_only? "Hellб🔥", [:Latin, :Cyrillic]

Development

Start the console with bin/console. Run the tests with bin/test.

Contributing

You're welcome to contribute to this project. See https://github.com/davidarendsen/unicode_script_detector.

License

This software is released under the MIT license.

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