decancer

A tiny package that removes common unicode confusables/homoglyphs from strings.

Its core is written in Rust and utilizes a form of Binary Search to ensure speed!
It's capable of filtering 215,361 (19.33%) different unicode codepoints like:
- All whitespace characters
- All diacritics, this also eliminates all forms of Zalgo text
- Most homoglyphs
- Several emojis
Unlike other packages, this package is unicode bidi-aware in a way that it also interprets right-to-left characters in the same way as it were to be rendered by an application.
And it's available in the following languages:
- Rust
- JavaScript (Node.js/Browser)
- C/C++
- Python (unofficial)

Installation

In your Cargo.toml:

decancer = "2.0.2"

In your shell:

$ npm install decancer

In your code (CommonJS):

const decancer = require('decancer')

In your code (ESM):

import decancer from 'decancer'

In your code:

<script type="module">
  import init from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/null8626/decancer@v2.0.2/bindings/wasm/bin/decancer.min.js'

  const decancer = await init()
</script>

Download

Building from source

Prerequisites:

$ git clone https://github.com/null8626/decancer.git --depth 1
$ cd decancer/bindings/native
$ cargo build --release

And the binary files should be generated in the target/release directory.

Examples

For more information, please read the documentation.

let cured = decancer::cure("vＥⓡ𝔂 𝔽𝕌Ňℕｙ ţ乇𝕏𝓣").unwrap();

assert_eq!(cured, "very funny text");
assert!(cured.contains("FuNny"));
assert_eq!(cured.into_str(), String::from("very funny text"));

const assert = require('node:assert')
const cured = decancer('vＥⓡ𝔂 𝔽𝕌Ňℕｙ ţ乇𝕏𝓣')

assert(cured.equals('very funny text'))
assert(cured.contains('funny'))

console.log(cured.toString())
// => 'very funny text'

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="utf-8" />
    <title>Decancerer!!! (tm)</title>
    <style>
      textarea {
        font-size: 30px;
      }

      #cure {
        font-size: 20px;
        padding: 5px 30px;
      }
    </style>
  </head>
  <body>
    <h3>Input cancerous text here:</h3>
    <textarea rows="10" cols="30"></textarea>
    <br />
    <button id="cure" onclick="cure()">cure!</button>
    <script type="module">
      import init from 'https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/gh/null8626/decancer@v2.0.2/bindings/wasm/bin/decancer.min.js'

      const decancer = await init()

      window.cure = function () {
        const textarea = document.querySelector('textarea')

        if (!textarea.value.length) {
          return alert("There's no text!!!")
        }

        textarea.value = decancer(textarea.value).toString()
      }
    </script>
  </body>
</html>

See this in action here.

#include <decancer.h>

#include <string.h>
#include <stdlib.h>
#include <stdio.h>

// global variable for assertion purposes only
decancer_cured_t cured;

static void assert(const bool expr, const char *message)
{
    if (!expr)
    {
        fprintf(stderr, "assertion failed (%s)\n", message);
        decancer_free(cured);
        
        exit(1);
    }
}

static void print_error(decancer_error_t error_code)
{
    char message[90];
    uint8_t message_size;
    
    const uint8_t *ptr = decancer_error(error_code, &message_size);
    memcpy(message, ptr, message_size);
   
    // rust strings are NOT null-terminated
    message[message_size] = '\0';
    
    fprintf(stderr, "error: %s", message);
}

int main(void) {
    decancer_error_t error_code;

    // utf-8 bytes for "vＥⓡ𝔂 𝔽𝕌Ňℕｙ ţ乇𝕏𝓣"
    uint8_t string[] = {0x76, 0xef, 0xbc, 0xa5, 0xe2, 0x93, 0xa1, 0xf0, 0x9d, 0x94, 0x82, 0x20, 0xf0, 0x9d,
                        0x94, 0xbd, 0xf0, 0x9d, 0x95, 0x8c, 0xc5, 0x87, 0xe2, 0x84, 0x95, 0xef, 0xbd, 0x99,
                        0x20, 0xc5, 0xa3, 0xe4, 0xb9, 0x87, 0xf0, 0x9d, 0x95, 0x8f, 0xf0, 0x9d, 0x93, 0xa3};

    cured = decancer_cure(string, sizeof(string), &error_code);

    if (cured == NULL)
    {
        print_error(error_code);
        return 1;
    }

    assert(decancer_equals(cured, (uint8_t *)("very funny text"), 15), "equals");
    assert(decancer_contains(cured, (uint8_t *)("funny"), 5), "contains");

    // coerce output as a raw UTF-8 pointer and retrieve its size (in bytes)
    size_t output_size;
    const uint8_t *output_raw = decancer_raw(cured, &output_size);

    assert(output_size == 15, "raw output size");

    // utf-8 bytes for "very funny text"
    const uint8_t expected_raw[] = {0x76, 0x65, 0x72, 0x79, 0x20, 0x66, 0x75, 0x6e,
                                    0x6e, 0x79, 0x20, 0x74, 0x65, 0x78, 0x74};

    char assert_message[38];
    for (uint32_t i = 0; i < sizeof(expected_raw); i++)
    {
        sprintf(assert_message, "mismatched utf-8 contents at index %u", i);
        assert(output_raw[i] == expected_raw[i], assert_message);
    }

    decancer_free(cured);    
    return 0;
}

Contributing

Please read CONTRIBUTING.md for newbie contributors who want to contribute!

decancer 2.0.2