Show HN: wcwidth-o1 – Find Unicode text cell width in no time for JavaScript/TS

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9 points by dawson0 3 hours ago

I ported Markus Kuhn’s wcwidth to TypeScript and optimized it with bitset lookups for O(1) performance. It now covers the full Unicode 15.1 combining ranges.

GitHub: https://github.com/dawsonhuang0/Wcwidth-O1 NPM: https://www.npmjs.com/package/wcwidth-o1

Feedback welcome!

jv22222 - 27 minutes ago

I was about to say you could figure this kind of thing out with Intl.Segmenter but then saw it was a different problem. Nice.

peter-m80 - an hour ago

Nice