jaro_winkler 1.5.5

jaro_winkler is an implementation of Jaro-Winkler \ distance algorithm which is written in C extension and will fallback to pure \ Ruby version in platforms other than MRI/KRI like JRuby or Rubinius. Both of \ C and Ruby implementation support any kind of string encoding, such as \ UTF-8, EUC-JP, Big5, etc.