CHANGELOG

2.5.0

Unicode 15.1

2.4.2

More performance improvements:

Optimize lookup of first 4096 codepoints
Avoid overwrite lookup if no overwrites are set

2.4.1

Improve general performance!
Further improve performance for ASCII strings

You should really upgrade - it's much faster now!

2.4.0

Improve performance for ASCII-only strings, by @fatkodima
Require Ruby 2.4

2.3.0

Unicode 15.0

2.2.0

Add Hangul Jamo Extended-B block to zero-width chars, thanks @ninjalj #22

2.1.0

Unicode 14.0

2.0.0

Release 2.0.0
Supports Ruby 3.0

2.0.0.pre2

Update 2.0 branch to Unicode 13

2.0.0.pre1

Will be published as non-pre version on rubygems.org when Ruby 3.0 is released (December 2020)

Introduce new class-based API, which remembers your string-width configuration. See README for details.
Remove auto-loading of string extension
- You can: require "unicode/display_width/string_ext" to continue to use the string extension
- The manual opt-out require "unicode/display_width/no_string_ext" is not needed anymore and will issue a warning in the future
Remove (already deprecated) String#display_size and String#display_width aliases

Refactorings / Internal Changes:

Freeze string literals
The Unicode::DisplayWidth now is class, instead of a module, this enables the new config-object API

1.8.0

Unicode 14.0 (last release of 1.x)

1.7.0

Unicode 13

1.6.1

Fix that ambiguous and overwrite options where ignored for emoji-measuring

1.6.0

Unicode 12.1

1.5.0

Unicode 12

1.4.1

Only bundle required lib/* and data/* files in actual rubygem, patch by @tas50

1.4.0

Unicode 11

1.3.3

Replace Gem::Util.gunzip with direct zlib implementation This removes the dependency on rubygems, fixes #17

1.3.2

Explicitly load rubygems/util, fixes regression in 1.3.1 (autoload issue)

1.3.1

Use Gem::Util for gunzip, removes deprecation warning, patch by @Schwad

1.3.0

Unicode 10

1.2.1

Fix bug that emoji: true would fail for emoji without modifier

1.2.0

Add zero-width codepoint ranges: U+2060..U+206F, U+FFF0..U+FFF8, U+E0000..U+E0FFF
Add full-witdh codepoint ranges: U+3400..U+4DBF, U+4E00..U+9FFF, U+F900..U+FAFF, U+20000..U+2FFFD, U+30000..U+3FFFD
Experimental emoji support using the unicode-emoji gem
Fix minor bug in index compression scheme

1.1.3

Fix that non-UTF-8 encodings do not throw errors, patch by @windwiny

1.1.2

Reduce memory consumption and increase performance, patch by @rrosenblum

1.1.1

Always load index into memory, fixes #9

1.1.0

Support Unicode 9.0

1.0.5

Actually include new index from 1.0.4

1.0.4

New index format (much smaller) and internal API changes
Move index generation to a builder plugin for the unicoder gem
No public API changes

1.0.3

Avoid circular dependency warning

1.0.2

Fix error that gemspec might be invalid under some circumstances (see gh#6)

1.0.1

Inofficially allow Ruby 1.9

1.0.0

Faster than 0.3.1
Advanced determination of character width
This includes: Treat width of most chars of general categories (Mn, Me, Cf) as 0
This includes: Introduce list of characters with special widths
Allow custom overrides for specific codepoints
Set required Ruby version to 2.0
Add NO_STRING_EXT mode to disable monkey patching
Internal API & index format changed drastically
Remove require 'unicode/display_size' (use 'unicode/display_width' instead)

0.3.1

Faster than 0.3.0
Deprecate usage of aliases: String#display_size and String#display_length
Eliminate Ruby warnings (@amatsuda)

0.3.0

Update EastAsianWidth from 7.0 to 8.0
Add rake task to update EastAsianWidth.txt
Move code to generate index from library to Rakefile
Update project's meta files
Deprecate requiring 'unicode-display_size'

0.2.0

Update EastAsianWidth from 6.0 to 7.0
Don't build index table automatically when not available
Don't include EastAsianWidth.txt in gem (only index)

0.1.0

Fix github issue #1

0.1.0

Initial release