unicode-string-width v0.1.0

unicode-string-width

Get the visual width of a unicode string - the number of columns required to display it

Handles:

• fullwidth characters
• ANSI escape codes escape codes (terminal corols)
• ASCII control characters
• additional variation selector characters in iOS/OSX

Install

$ npm install unicode-string-width

Usage

const unicodeStringWidth = require('unicode-string-width');

unicodeStringWidth('古');
//=> 2

unicodeStringWidth('\u001b[1mဤဥဩဪါ\u001b[22m');
//=> 5

unicodeStringWidth('a');
//=> 1

License

• Unlicense (~Public Domain)

Related Work

• string-width - Same stuff, just with a bug. I should have probably just make a PR with a bug fix, but by the time I understood what the bug was, I had this fully functional :)