This is kinda port of python's jquast/wcwidth

🌐 Unicode release files

• Installation
• Quick start
• Usage
• FFI Extension

$ composer require alecrabbit/php-wcwidth

use function AlecRabbit\WcWidth\wcwidth;
use function AlecRabbit\WcWidth\wcswidth;
echo wcwidth('a'); // 1
echo wcwidth('é'); // 1
echo wcwidth('🐘'); // 2
echo wcswidth('🐘🐘🐘'); // 6
echo wcwidth('🐘🐘🐘'); // 2 - only first char is considered

see doc/usage.md for more details.

Note ‼️ Experimental feature.

For improved performance, consider leveraging the Foreign Function Interface (FFI) extension, if available. To enable this feature, set the USE_FFI environment variable to true.

USE_FFI=true

Note When using ffi extension version value is ignored completely.