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node-stringprep

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Purpose

Exposes predefined Unicode normalization functions that are required by many protocols. This is just a binding to ICU, which is said to be fast.

Installation

# Debian
apt-get install libicu-dev

# Gentoo
emerge icu

# OSX using MacPorts
port install icu +devel

# OSX using Homebrew
brew install icu4c
ln -s /usr/local/Cellar/icu4c/<VERSION>/bin/icu-config /usr/local/bin/icu-config

npm install node-stringprep

Usage

var StringPrep = require('node-stringprep').StringPrep;
var prep = new StringPrep('nameprep');
prep.prepare('Äffchen')  // => 'äffchen'

For a list of supported profiles, see node-stringprep.cc