Method: String#unicode_normalize

Defined in:
lib/unicode_normalize.rb

#unicode_normalize(form = :nfc) ⇒ Object

Unicode Normalization

:call-seq:

str.unicode_normalize(form=:nfc)

Returns a normalized form of str, using Unicode normalizations NFC, NFD, NFKC, or NFKD. The normalization form used is determined by form, which is any of the four values :nfc, :nfd, :nfkc, or :nfkd. The default is :nfc.

If the string is not in a Unicode Encoding, then an Exception is raised. In this context, ‘Unicode Encoding’ means any of UTF-8, UTF-16BE/LE, and UTF-32BE/LE, as well as GB18030, UCS_2BE, and UCS_4BE. Anything else than UTF-8 is implemented by converting to UTF-8, which makes it slower than UTF-8.

Examples

"a\u0300".unicode_normalize        #=> 'à' (same as "\u00E0")
"a\u0300".unicode_normalize(:nfc)  #=> 'à' (same as "\u00E0")
"\u00E0".unicode_normalize(:nfd)   #=> 'à' (same as "a\u0300")
"\xE0".force_encoding('ISO-8859-1').unicode_normalize(:nfd)
                                   #=> Encoding::CompatibilityError raised



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# File 'lib/unicode_normalize.rb', line 32

def unicode_normalize(form = :nfc)
  require 'unicode_normalize/normalize.rb' unless defined? UnicodeNormalize
  ## The following line can be uncommented to avoid repeated checking for
  ## UnicodeNormalize. However, tests didn't show any noticeable speedup
  ## when doing this. This comment also applies to the commented out lines
  ## in String#unicode_normalize! and String#unicode_normalized?.
  # String.send(:define_method, :unicode_normalize, ->(form = :nfc) { UnicodeNormalize.normalize(self, form) } )
  UnicodeNormalize.normalize(self, form)
end