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# StringDistances

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

Should work with ASCII, UTF-8 and Unicode

# Syntax
There are two possible syntaxes for any distance:
```julia
using StringDistances
evaluate(Jaccard(2), "martha", "marhta")
jaccard("martha", "marhta"; q = 2)
```