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miniaturebase/runes
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A low-level string character analysis library for PHP.

v0.1.1(5y ago)022[1 PRs](https://github.com/minibase-app/runes/pulls)MITPHPPHP >=7.1 || >=8.0CI failing

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Runes
=====

[](#runes)

A low-level string character analysis library for PHP.

See [compart unicode documentation](https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/) for useful information about unicode characters that PHP does not handle yet.

**Features:**

- Per-character (multi-byte aware) analysis;
- Script detection, differentiating look-a-like characters (see [IDN homograph attack](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDN_homograph_attack));
- Character encoding detection & conversion;
- Various serialization formats;

Setup
-----

[](#setup)

Instructions on how to set this repository up for use in your own project, or as a develper contributing to this one.

### Requirements

[](#requirements)

There are not many requirements for this library. All of them are host machine related.

- PHP `>= 7.1`;
- PHP [Intl extension](https://www.php.net/manual/en/book.intl.php);
- [libicu](http://site.icu-project.org/);

### Installation

[](#installation)

Use composer and your autoloader.

```
composer require jordanbrauer/runes
```

**For Contributors:**

Clone the repository and install the development tools to begin running tests for your features & bug fixes.

```
git clone https://github.com/jordanbrauer/runes.git \
  && cd ./runes \
  && composer install;
```

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

Using the library is super simple. For a quick example, let's analyze the ancient, *yet [strangely familiar](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluetooth#Logo)*, `ᛒ` from the [Elder Futhark](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder_Futhark) writing system!

```
use Rune\Rune;

$rune = new Rune('ᛒ');

dump($rune->toJson());
```

Would output the following data about the glyph.

```
{
  "bidirectionalClass": "L",
  "binary": "111000011001101110010010",
  "blockCode": 35,
  "bytes": 1,
  "category": "Lo",
  "codepoint": "U+16D2",
  "combiningClass": 0,
  "decimal": 14785426,
  "encoding": "UTF-8",
  "glyph": "ᛒ",
  "hex": "e19b92",
  "isMirrored": false,
  "name": "RUNIC LETTER BERKANAN BEORC BJARKAN B",
  "script": "Runic",
  "utf16": "0x16D2",
  "utf32": "0x000016D2",
  "utf8": "0xE1 0x9B 0x92",
  "version": "3.0.0.0"
}
```

Motivation
----------

[](#motivation)

[Unicode is awesome](https://emojipedia.org/emoji-zwj-sequence/). However, it can be the source of much pain for programmers. This tool aims to help alleviate said pain by providing a low-level/generic API that allows you to focus on the problem without getting bogged down with UTF-8 and it's cousins.

### Project Name

[](#project-name)

Originally, the name of this project was UTFH8; a tongue-in-cheek word-play on the UTF-8 encoding algorithm and the (very strong) English word, *"hate"*, by using the number eight in place of the letters *"a-t-e"*, insinutating that at some point in every developer's career, they will say – *"I hate unicode"*.

Now, the project has been renamed to *Runes*, inspired by [Go's rune type](https://blog.golang.org/strings), and the Elder Futhark – something less harsh & sinister sounding.

###  Health Score

23

—

LowBetter than 27% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity6

Limited adoption so far

Community7

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity50

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~0 days

Total

2

Last Release

1910d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/867c1f6d15ff437167c0d7467b16da89095218d52e19716fbf9155497d100615?d=identicon)[jordanbrauer](/maintainers/jordanbrauer)

---

Top Contributors

[![jordanbrauer](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/18744334?v=4)](https://github.com/jordanbrauer "jordanbrauer (40 commits)")

---

Tags

analysisasciiphpsecuritystringunicodeutf-16utf-32utf-8utf-8stringsecurityasciianalysisutf-16utf-32

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Code StylePHP CS Fixer

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