diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
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+Gemfile.lock
+/pkg
diff --git a/.travis.yml b/.travis.yml
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+sudo: false
+language: ruby
+
+script: bundle exec ruby spec/unicode_confusable_spec.rb
+
+rvm:
+- 2.3.0
+- 2.2
+- ruby-head
+- rbx-2
+- jruby-head
+- jruby-9.0.5.0
+
+cache:
+- bundler
+
+# matrix:
+#   fast_finish: true
diff --git a/CHANGELOG.md b/CHANGELOG.md
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+## CHANGELOG
+
+### 1.0.0
+
+* Inital release
+
diff --git a/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md b/CODE_OF_CONDUCT.md
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+# Contributor Covenant Code of Conduct
+
+## Our Pledge
+
+In the interest of fostering an open and welcoming environment, we as
+contributors and maintainers pledge to making participation in our project and
+our community a harassment-free experience for everyone, regardless of age, body
+size, disability, ethnicity, gender identity and expression, level of experience,
+nationality, personal appearance, race, religion, or sexual identity and
+orientation.
+
+## Our Standards
+
+Examples of behavior that contributes to creating a positive environment
+include:
+
+* Using welcoming and inclusive language
+* Being respectful of differing viewpoints and experiences
+* Gracefully accepting constructive criticism
+* Focusing on what is best for the community
+* Showing empathy towards other community members
+
+Examples of unacceptable behavior by participants include:
+
+* The use of sexualized language or imagery and unwelcome sexual attention or
+advances
+* Trolling, insulting/derogatory comments, and personal or political attacks
+* Public or private harassment
+* Publishing others' private information, such as a physical or electronic
+  address, without explicit permission
+* Other conduct which could reasonably be considered inappropriate in a
+  professional setting
+
+## Our Responsibilities
+
+Project maintainers are responsible for clarifying the standards of acceptable
+behavior and are expected to take appropriate and fair corrective action in
+response to any instances of unacceptable behavior.
+
+Project maintainers have the right and responsibility to remove, edit, or
+reject comments, commits, code, wiki edits, issues, and other contributions
+that are not aligned to this Code of Conduct, or to ban temporarily or
+permanently any contributor for other behaviors that they deem inappropriate,
+threatening, offensive, or harmful.
+
+## Scope
+
+This Code of Conduct applies both within project spaces and in public spaces
+when an individual is representing the project or its community. Examples of
+representing a project or community include using an official project e-mail
+address, posting via an official social media account, or acting as an appointed
+representative at an online or offline event. Representation of a project may be
+further defined and clarified by project maintainers.
+
+## Enforcement
+
+Instances of abusive, harassing, or otherwise unacceptable behavior may be
+reported by contacting the project team at opensource@janlelis.com. All
+complaints will be reviewed and investigated and will result in a response that
+is deemed necessary and appropriate to the circumstances. The project team is
+obligated to maintain confidentiality with regard to the reporter of an incident.
+Further details of specific enforcement policies may be posted separately.
+
+Project maintainers who do not follow or enforce the Code of Conduct in good
+faith may face temporary or permanent repercussions as determined by other
+members of the project's leadership.
+
+## Attribution
+
+This Code of Conduct is adapted from the [Contributor Covenant][homepage], version 1.4,
+available at [http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4][version]
+
+[homepage]: http://contributor-covenant.org
+[version]: http://contributor-covenant.org/version/1/4/
diff --git a/Gemfile b/Gemfile
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+++ b/Gemfile
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+source 'https://rubygems.org'
+
+gemspec
+
+gem 'minitest'
diff --git a/MIT-LICENSE.txt b/MIT-LICENSE.txt
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+Copyright (c) 2016 Jan Lelis, mail@janlelis.de
+
+Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining
+a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the
+"Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including
+without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish,
+distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to
+permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to
+the following conditions:
+
+The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be
+included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.
+
+THE SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED "AS IS", WITHOUT WARRANTY OF ANY KIND,
+EXPRESS OR IMPLIED, INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO THE WARRANTIES OF
+MERCHANTABILITY, FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE AND
+NONINFRINGEMENT. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE AUTHORS OR COPYRIGHT HOLDERS BE
+LIABLE FOR ANY CLAIM, DAMAGES OR OTHER LIABILITY, WHETHER IN AN ACTION
+OF CONTRACT, TORT OR OTHERWISE, ARISING FROM, OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION
+WITH THE SOFTWARE OR THE USE OR OTHER DEALINGS IN THE SOFTWARE.
diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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+# Unicode::Confusable [![[version]](https://badge.fury.io/rb/unicode-confusable.svg)](http://badge.fury.io/rb/unicode-confusable)  [![[travis]](https://travis-ci.org/janlelis/unicode-confusable.png)](https://travis-ci.org/janlelis/unicode-confusable)
+
+Compares two strings if they are visually confusable as described in [Unicode® Technical Standard #39](http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr39/#Confusable_Detection): Both strings get transformed into a skeleton format before comparing them. The skeleton is generated by normalizing the string, replacing [confusable characters](ftp://ftp.unicode.org/Public/security/8.0.0/confusables.txt), and normalizing the string again. Please note: The skeleton is an intermediate representation, not meant for any other use than testing confusability.
+
+Unicode version: **8.0.0**
+
+Supported Rubies: **2.3**, **2.2**
+
+## `Gemfile`
+
+```ruby
+gem "unicode-confusable"
+```
+
+## Usage
+
+```ruby
+require "unicode/confusable"
+
+Unicode::Confusable.confusable? "a", "b" # => false
+Unicode::Confusable.confusable? "ℜ𝘂ᖯʏ", "Ruby" # => true
+Unicode::Confusable.confusable? "Michael", "Michae1" # => true
+Unicode::Confusable.confusable? "⁇", "?" # => false
+Unicode::Confusable.confusable? "⁇", "??" # => true
+```
+
+## No Advanced Detection
+
+TR 39 also describes mechanisms for a more exact recognition of confusables, also within the same string:
+
+- Single-script confusable
+- Mixed-script confusable
+- Whole-script confusable
+
+This is (currently) **not** supported by this gem.
+
+## MIT License
+
+- Copyright (C) 2016 Jan Lelis <http://janlelis.com>. Released under the MIT license.
+- Unicode data: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html#Exhibit1
diff --git a/Rakefile b/Rakefile
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+++ b/Rakefile
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+# # #
+# Get gemspec info
+
+gemspec_file = Dir['*.gemspec'].first
+gemspec = eval File.read(gemspec_file), binding, gemspec_file
+info = "#{gemspec.name} | #{gemspec.version} | " \
+       "#{gemspec.runtime_dependencies.size} dependencies | " \
+       "#{gemspec.files.size} files"
+
+# # #
+# Gem build and install task
+
+desc info
+task :gem do
+  puts info + "\n\n"
+  print "  "; sh "gem build #{gemspec_file}"
+  FileUtils.mkdir_p 'pkg'
+  FileUtils.mv "#{gemspec.name}-#{gemspec.version}.gem", 'pkg'
+  puts; sh %{gem install --no-document pkg/#{gemspec.name}-#{gemspec.version}.gem}
+end
+
+# # #
+# Start an IRB session with the gem loaded
+
+desc "#{gemspec.name} | IRB"
+task :irb do
+  sh "irb -I ./lib -r #{gemspec.name.gsub '-','/'}"
+end
+
+# # #
+# Run Specs
+
+desc "#{gemspec.name} | Spec"
+task :spec do
+  sh "for file in spec/*.rb; do ruby $file; done"
+end
+task default: :spec
diff --git a/data/confusable.marshal.gz b/data/confusable.marshal.gz
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diff --git a/lib/unicode/confusable.rb b/lib/unicode/confusable.rb
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+require_relative "confusable/constants"
+require_relative "confusable/index"
+
+require 'unicode_normalize/normalize'
+
+module Unicode
+  module Confusable
+    def self.confusable?(string1, string2)
+      skeleton(string1) == skeleton(string2)
+    end
+
+    def self.skeleton(string)
+      require_relative 'display_width/index' unless defined? ::Unicode::Confusable::INDEX
+      UnicodeNormalize.normalize(
+        UnicodeNormalize.normalize(string, :nfd).each_codepoint.map{ |codepoint|
+          INDEX[codepoint] || codepoint
+        }.flatten.pack("U*"), :nfd
+      )
+    end
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/lib/unicode/confusable/constants.rb b/lib/unicode/confusable/constants.rb
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+module Unicode
+  module Confusable
+    VERSION = "1.0.0".freeze
+    DATA_DIRECTORY = File.expand_path(File.dirname(__FILE__) + '/../../../data/').freeze
+    INDEX_FILENAME = (DATA_DIRECTORY + '/confusable.marshal.gz').freeze
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/lib/unicode/confusable/index.rb b/lib/unicode/confusable/index.rb
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+++ b/lib/unicode/confusable/index.rb
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+require_relative 'constants'
+
+module Unicode
+  module Confusable
+    INDEX = Marshal.load(Gem.gunzip(File.binread(INDEX_FILENAME)))
+  end
+end
diff --git a/lib/unicode/confusable/string_ext.rb b/lib/unicode/confusable/string_ext.rb
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+++ b/lib/unicode/confusable/string_ext.rb
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+require_relative "../confusable"
+
+class String
+  # Optional core extension for your convenience
+  def confusable?(other)
+    Unicode::Confusable.compare(self, other)
+  end
+end
diff --git a/spec/unicode_confusable_spec.rb b/spec/unicode_confusable_spec.rb
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+require_relative "../lib/unicode/confusable"
+require "minitest/autorun"
+
+describe Unicode::Confusable do
+  it "will detect official confusables" do
+    assert_equal true, Unicode::Confusable.confusable?("1", "l")
+    assert_equal true, Unicode::Confusable.confusable?("ℜ𝘂ᖯʏ", "Ruby")
+    assert_equal true, Unicode::Confusable.confusable?("Michael", "Michae1")
+    assert_equal true, Unicode::Confusable.confusable?("⁇", "??")
+  end
+
+  it "will return false for non-confusables" do
+    assert_equal false, Unicode::Confusable.confusable?("a", "b")
+    assert_equal false, Unicode::Confusable.confusable?("⁇", "?")
+  end
+end
+
diff --git a/unicode-confusable.gemspec b/unicode-confusable.gemspec
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+# -*- encoding: utf-8 -*-
+
+require File.dirname(__FILE__) + "/lib/unicode/confusable/constants"
+
+Gem::Specification.new do |gem|
+  gem.name          = "unicode-confusable"
+  gem.version       = Unicode::Confusable::VERSION
+  gem.summary       = "Detect characters that look visually similar."
+  gem.description   = "Compares two strings if they are visually confusable as described in Unicode® Technical Standard #39: Both strings get transformed into a skeleton format before comparing them. The skeleton is generated by normalizing the string, replacing confusable characters, and normalizing the string again."
+  gem.authors       = ["Jan Lelis"]
+  gem.email         = ["mail@janlelis.de"]
+  gem.homepage      = "https://github.com/janlelis/unicode-confusable"
+  gem.license       = "MIT"
+
+  gem.files         = Dir["{**/}{.*,*}"].select{ |path| File.file?(path) && path !~ /^pkg/ }
+  gem.executables   = gem.files.grep(%r{^bin/}).map{ |f| File.basename(f) }
+  gem.test_files    = gem.files.grep(%r{^(test|spec|features)/})
+  gem.require_paths = ["lib"]
+
+  gem.required_ruby_version = "~> 2.2"
+end