#!/usr/bin/env ruby # http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?start=8192&number=128&utf8=string-literal # https://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/chars/spaces.html require 'htmlentities' STDIN.set_encoding 'utf-8' STDOUT.set_encoding 'utf-8' coder = HTMLEntities.new while line = STDIN.gets line.sub! "\xef\xbb\xbf", "" # BOM line.strip! # superfluous line.lstrip! # whitespace line.gsub! /[[:cntrl:]]+/, " " # control characters line.gsub! /\u{00a0}/, " " # misc whitespace line.gsub! /\u{1680}/, " " # ^ line.gsub! /\u{180e}/, " " # ^ line.gsub! /\u{3000}/, " " # ^ line.gsub! /\u{feff}/, " " # ^ line = line.scan(/[[:print:]]/).join # only printable characters line.gsub! /[\u{e000}-\u{f8ff}]/, " " # UTF-8 PUA line.gsub! /[\u{f0000}-\u{ffffd}]/, " " line.gsub! /[\u{100000}-\u{10fffd}]/, " " line.gsub! "\r", " " # carriage return line.gsub! /[\u{2000}-\u{200f}]/, " " # EN QUAD -- RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK line.gsub! /[\u{2028}-\u{202f}]/, " " # LINE SEPARATOR -- NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE line.gsub! /[\u{205f}-\u{206f}]/, " " # MEDIUM MATHEMATICAL SPACE -- NOMINAL DIGIT SHAPES line.gsub! /\s*\xc2\xad\s*/, "" # remove hyphens line.gsub! /[[:space:]]+/, " " # collapse space puts coder.decode(line) end