unicode-regex

regular expression for matching unicode category.

Changelog

Install

npm install unicode-regex

Usage

import unicode from 'unicode-regex'

const regex = unicode({ General_Category: ['Punctuation'] }).toRegExp()
regex.test('a') //=> false
regex.test('"') //=> true
regex.test('“') //=> true

API

declare function unicode(categories: {
  [category: string]: SubCategory[]
}): Charset

Returns a Charset for further processing, e.g. union, intersect, etc.

(Data from node-unicode-data)

Development

# lint
pnpm run lint

# build
pnpm run build

# test
pnpm run test

License

MIT © Ika

Changelog

All notable changes to this project will be documented in this file. See standard-version for commit guidelines.

4.1.2 (2025-03-08)

4.1.1 (2025-03-08)

4.1.0 (2025-03-07)

Features

• support Unicode 15.1 (#302) (068792d)
• support Unicode 16 (#303) (29ccf73)

4.0.0 (2023-07-09)

Build System

• update infra (#298) (4270f16)

Features

• support Unicode 15.0.0 (#299) (775d18e)

BREAKING CHANGES

• upgrade Unicode data from v12.1.0 to v15.0.0
• this package is now pure ESM

3.0.0 (2019-09-29)

Features

• support Unicode 12.1.0 (#256) (d27a16f)

BREAKING CHANGES

• upgrade Unicode data from v10.0.0 to v12.1.0

2.0.0 (2018-02-09)

Features

• rewrite with node-unicode-data and regexp-util (#57) (c26d703)

BREAKING CHANGES

More categories, processable output, and adding codepoints that's greater than 0xffff.

// before
unicode_regex(['Pc', 'Pd', 'Pe', 'Pf', 'Pi', 'Po', 'Ps'])

// after
unicode({ General_Category: ['Punctuation'] }).toRegExp()

1.0.1 (2017-11-12)

Bug Fixes

• no invalid pattern (#1) (fcc7caa)

1.0.0 (2017-11-12)

Features

• initial implementation (3b18748)