@hyrious/string-width

> Get displayed width of unicode strings according to UAX#11 rules.

This package is a JS port of Rust's unicode-width.

Caveats

It does not handle ANSI escape codes and complex emoji sequences.
You can use strip-ansi and emoji-regex before passing strings to this package. See test.js of commented out test cases.

Install

``
npm add @hyrious/string-width
`

Usage

`js
import stringWidth from '@hyrious/string-width'
// const stringWidth = require('@hyrious/string-width')

stringWidth('a')
//=> 1

stringWidth('古')
//=> 2
`

$3

- string {String} The string to get the width of.
- options {Object}
- ambiguousIsNarrow {Boolean} (default: true`) Whether to treat ambiguous-width characters as narrow (count of 1) instead of wide (count of 2).

Returns a number of the column width of the string.

Alternatives

- string-width

License

MIT @ hyrious