RubyPants Unicode — SmartyPants ported to Ruby

It just occurred to me that if we are encoding our HTML pages in UTF-8 to handle multiple languages and using web fonts with multilanguage support, shouldn't we be able to directly insert the simple apostrophe, ellipsis, and em-dash?

RubyPants

RubyPants is a Ruby port of the smart-quotes library SmartyPants.

The original “SmartyPants” is a free web publishing plug-in for Movable Type, Blosxom, and BBEdit that easily translates plain ASCII punctuation characters into “smart” typographic punctuation HTML entities.

See rubypants.rb for more information.

Incompatibilities

RubyPants uses a different API than SmartyPants; it is compatible to Red- and BlueCloth. Usually, you call RubyPants like this:

  nicehtml = RubyPants.new(uglyhtml, options).to_html

where +options+ is an Array of Integers and/or Symbols (if you don’t pass any options, RubyPants will use [2] as default.)

Note:: This is incompatible to SmartyPants, which uses [1] for default.

The exact meaning of numbers and symbols is documented at RubyPants#new.

SmartyPants license:

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

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Neither the name “SmartyPants” nor the names of its contributors may be used to endorse or promote products derived from this software without specific prior written permission.

This software is provided by the copyright holders and contributors “as is” and any express or implied warranties, including, but not limited to, the implied warranties of merchantability and fitness for a particular purpose are disclaimed. In no event shall the copyright owner or contributors be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, exemplary, or consequential damages (including, but not limited to, procurement of substitute goods or services; loss of use, data, or profits; or business interruption) however caused and on any theory of liability, whether in contract, strict liability, or tort (including negligence or otherwise) arising in any way out of the use of this software, even if advised of the possibility of such damage.

RubyPants license

RubyPants is a derivative work of SmartyPants and smartypants.py.

Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:

Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.