Unicode::X

A collection of specific micro libraries providing data and algorithms that might be handy when working with Unicode characters in Ruby:

Library	Info
unicode-blocks	Blocks
unicode-categories	General Categories
unicode-confusable	Confusable detection
unicode-emoji	Emoji data and regex
unicode-display_width	Monospace character width
unicode-name	Unicode codepoint name/alias/label
unicode_normalize	Unicode normalization (from stdlib)
unicode-numeric_value	Convert a Unicode character into its numeric value
unicode-scripts	Scripts and Script_Extensions
unicode-sequence_name	Codepoint sequence names
unicode-types	Basic codepoint types

Setup

Add to Gemfile:

gem 'unicode-x'

All gems can also be installed standalone, if you only need certain features. The Unicode index data in most of the gems is generated using unicoder.