Simple FFI wrappers for things I need from ICU. For the full thing, check out ICU4R instead.
gem install ffi-icu
ICU.
If you get messages that the library or functions are not found, you can set some environment varibles to tell ffi-icu where to find it, e.g.:
$ export FFI_ICU_LIB="icui18n.so"
$ export FFI_ICU_VERSION_SUFFIX="_3_8"
$ ruby -r ffi-icu program.rb
Examples:
match = ICU::CharDet.detect(str)
match.name # => "UTF-8"
match.confidence # => 80
or
detector = ICU::CharDet::Detector.new
detector.detect(str) => #<struct ICU::CharDet::Detector::Match ...>
Why not just use rchardet?
- speed
- 1.9 support
Examples:
ICU::Collation.collate("nb", %w[å æ ø]) == %w[æ ø å] #=> true
or
collator = ICU::Collation::Collator.new("nb")
collator.compare("a", "b") #=> -1
collator.greater?("z", "a") #=> true
collator.collate(%w[å æ ø]) #=> ["æ", "ø", "å"]
Examples:
iterator = ICU::BreakIterator.new(:word, "en_US")
iterator.text = "This is a sentence."
iterator.to_a #=> [0, 4, 5, 7, 8, 9, 10, 18, 19]
Platforms:
- OS X 10.6
- Arch Linux
Rubies:
- MRI 1.9.1
- MRI 1.8.7
- Useful ICU stuff:
- number formatting (decimal points, thousand separators, currency)
- date formatting
- Windows?!
- Fork the project.
- Make your feature addition or bug fix.
- Add tests for it. This is important so I don't break it in a future version unintentionally.
- Commit, do not mess with rakefile, version, or history. (if you want to have your own version, that is fine but bump version in a commit by itself I can ignore when I pull)
- Send me a pull request. Bonus points for topic branches.
Copyright (c) 2010-2012 Jari Bakken. See LICENSE for details.