eastasianwidth

East Asian Width

Get East Asian Width from a character.

'F'(Fullwidth), 'H'(Halfwidth), 'W'(Wide), 'Na'(Narrow), 'A'(Ambiguous) or 'N'(Natural).

Original Code is 東アジアの文字幅 (East Asian Width) の判定 - 中途.

Install

$ npm install eastasianwidth

Usage

var eaw = require('eastasianwidth');
console.log(eaw.eastAsianWidth('￦')) // 'F'
console.log(eaw.eastAsianWidth('｡')) // 'H'
console.log(eaw.eastAsianWidth('뀀')) // 'W'
console.log(eaw.eastAsianWidth('a')) // 'Na'
console.log(eaw.eastAsianWidth('①')) // 'A'
console.log(eaw.eastAsianWidth('ف')) // 'N'

console.log(eaw.characterLength('￦')) // 2
console.log(eaw.characterLength('｡')) // 1
console.log(eaw.characterLength('뀀')) // 2
console.log(eaw.characterLength('a')) // 1
console.log(eaw.characterLength('①')) // 2
console.log(eaw.characterLength('ف')) // 1

console.log(eaw.length('あいうえお')) // 10
console.log(eaw.length('abcdefg')) // 7
console.log(eaw.length('￠￦｡ￜㄅ뀀¢⟭a⊙①بف')) // 19

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string-width

The string-width package is used to calculate and return the visual width of a string in terminal, taking into account East Asian Width. It is similar to eastasianwidth but works on strings rather than individual characters.

wcwidth

The wcwidth package is another utility for determining the number of terminal column cells a string will occupy. It's based on the wcwidth() function defined in POSIX.1-2001 and POSIX.1-2008, which is similar to what eastasianwidth does but with a focus on compatibility with POSIX standards.