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Unicode projects on GitHub

Unicode character handling, encoding correctness, and text pitfalls.

As of , the most-starred Unicode projects on GitHub are tesseract (77K stars), pretext (50.8K stars) and big-list-of-naughty-strings (47.7K stars). GitHub.Locker tracks 13 Unicode repositories with 317.6K stars combined. The fastest-growing on October 16 was pretext, with +21 stars in a day.

13Projects
317.6KStars in total
+58Stars in a day
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Hot right now

Most stars gained in a day · Oct 16

+21

pretext

chenglou/pretext · ★ 50.8K

Pretext is a pure JavaScript/TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout — fast and accurate, including for languages you may not even know about.

+11

tesseract

tesseract-ocr/tesseract · ★ 77K

Tesseract is an open source OCR engine: it ships as the libtesseract library plus a command line program called tesseract that reads text out of images.

+9

source-han-sans

adobe-fonts/source-han-sans · ★ 17.4K

Source Han Sans is a set of open-source Pan-CJK OpenType fonts covering Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Japanese, and Korean, plus the full source files used to build them.

+5

JetBrainsMono

JetBrains/JetBrainsMono · ★ 13.1K

JetBrains Mono is a free and open-source monospaced typeface built specifically for developers. It is available as a standalone download and also comes bundled with all JetBrains IDEs.

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13 projects · by stars

  1. #1 · tesseract-ocr/tesseract

    tesseract

    Tesseract is an open source OCR engine: it ships as the libtesseract library plus a command line program called tesseract that reads text out of images.

    77K
  2. #2 · chenglou/pretext

    pretext

    Pretext is a pure JavaScript/TypeScript library for multiline text measurement and layout — fast and accurate, including for languages you may not even know about.

    50.8K
  3. #3 · minimaxir/big-list-of-naughty-strings

    big-list-of-naughty-strings

    It is a curated collection of strings with a high probability of breaking software when used as user input, meant to help QA testing of input validation.

    47.7K
  1. 4

    awesome-falsehood

    27.8Kkdeldycke/awesome-falsehood

    A curated list of falsehoods programmers believe in: articles collecting assumptions that sound obviously true but break on real-world edge cases, like believing a valid email address has exactly one @ character.

  2. 5

    fmt

    25.9Kfmtlib/fmt · C++

    {fmt} is an open-source C++ formatting library — a fast, safe alternative to C stdio and C++ iostreams, with a format string syntax similar to Python's.

  3. 6

    xi-editor

    19.8Kxi-editor/xi-editor · Rust

    An attempt to build a high-quality text editor with modern software engineering: a Rust back-end aiming for extreme performance, reliability and easy customization.

  4. 7

    source-han-sans

    17.4Kadobe-fonts/source-han-sans · Python

    Source Han Sans is a set of open-source Pan-CJK OpenType fonts covering Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Traditional Chinese (Hong Kong), Japanese, and Korean, plus the full source files used to build them.

  5. 8

    rapidjson

    15.1KTencent/rapidjson · C++

    RapidJSON is a fast, header-only JSON parser and generator library for C++, supporting both SAX and DOM style APIs.

  6. 9

    JetBrainsMono

    13.1KJetBrains/JetBrainsMono · Shell

    JetBrains Mono is a free and open-source monospaced typeface built specifically for developers. It is available as a standalone download and also comes bundled with all JetBrains IDEs.

  7. 10

    EmailValidator

    11.6Kegulias/EmailValidator · PHP

    A PHP library that validates email addresses against several RFCs — 5321, 5322, 6530, 6531, 6532 and 1035.

  8. 11

    python-prompt-toolkit

    10.6Kprompt-toolkit/python-prompt-toolkit · Python

    prompt_toolkit is a Python library for building powerful interactive command line applications — you use it to write your own terminal apps, not run it directly.

  9. 12

    c64-keyboard-font

    634szabadkai/c64-keyboard-font · Python

    C64 Keyboard is a font that recreates the printed letter and symbol legends from a real Commodore 64 keyboard, traced and cleaned up from photographs of the actual keycaps. It ships as desktop TTF/OTF files, a webfont, editable outlines, and a specimen for previewing the glyphs.

  10. 13

    php-fts

    142olivier-ls/php-fts · PHP

    php-fts is a self-contained full-text search engine written in pure PHP: no extensions, no external services, no dependencies. You get ranked search, typo tolerance, filters, facets, sorting and highlighting from files on disk.

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