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# StringDistances

- [x] Hamming Distance
- [x] Jaro Distance and Jaro-Winkler Distance
- [x] Levenshtein Distance
- [x] Damerau-Levenshtein Distance
- [x] Qgram Distance
- [x] Cosine Distance
- [x] Jaccard Distance

Supports ASCII, UTF-8 and Unicode

Examples
```julia
using StringDistances
hamming("MARTHA", "MARHTA")
levenshtein("MARTHA", "MARHTA")
damerau_levenshtein("MARTHA", "MARHTA")
jaro("MARTHA", "MARHTA")
jaro_winkler("MARTHA", "MARHTA"; scaling_factor = 0.1, boosting_threshold = 0.7, long_threshold = 5)
```