README.md in unibits-1.3.0 vs README.md in unibits-2.0.0
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Ruby library and CLI command that visualizes various Unicode and ASCII encodings in the terminal:
- Makes analyzing encodings easier
- Helps you with debugging strings
-- Supports **UTF-8**, **UTF-16LE**/**UTF-16BE**, **UTF-32LE**/**UTF-32BE**, arbitrary **BINARY** data, and **ASCII**
+- Supports **UTF-8**, **UTF-16LE**/**UTF-16BE**, **UTF-32LE**/**UTF-32BE**, **ISO-8859-X**, **Windows-125X** arbitrary **BINARY** data, and **ASCII**
- Highlights invalid encodings
+## Color Coding
+
+Each byte of the given string is highlighted using the following mechanism:
+
+- Red for invalid bytes
+- Orange for unassigned bytes/characters
+- Blue for control characters
+- Light blue for blanks
+- Random color for all other characters
+
## Setup
Make sure you have Ruby installed and installing gems works properly. Then do:
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### BINARY
-(not possible to produce invalid binary strings)
+Not possible to produce invalid binary strings
## Notes
Also see
+- [Ruby's Encoding class](https://ruby-doc.org/core/Encoding.html)
+- [Characteristics gem](https://github.com/janlelis/characteristics)
- [UTF-8 (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8#Description)
- [UTF-16 (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16#Description)
- [UTF-32 (Wikipedia)](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-32)
-- [Ruby's Encoding class](https://ruby-doc.org/core/Encoding.html)
- [Difference between BINARY and ASCII](http://idiosyncratic-ruby.com/56-us-ascii-8bit.html)
- [Unicode Micro Libraries for Ruby](https://github.com/janlelis/unicode-x)
Lots of thanks to @damienklinnert for the motivation and inspiration required to build this! 🎆