Convert Unicode characters to Latin characters using transliteration
npm install @stream-io/transliterate> Convert Unicode characters to Latin characters using transliteration
Can be useful for slugification purposes and other times you cannot use Unicode.
``
$ npm install @sindresorhus/transliterate
`js
import transliterate from '@sindresorhus/transliterate';
transliterate('Fußgängerübergänge');
//=> 'Fussgaengeruebergaenge'
transliterate('Я люблю единорогов');
//=> 'Ya lyublyu edinorogov'
transliterate('أنا أحب حيدات');
//=> 'ana ahb hydat'
transliterate('tôi yêu những chú kỳ lân');
//=> 'toi yeu nhung chu ky lan'
`
#### string
Type: string
String to transliterate.
#### options
Type: object
##### customReplacements
Type: Array\[]
Default:
Add your own custom replacements.
The replacements are run on the original string before any other transformations.
This only overrides a default replacement if you set an item with the same key.
`js
import transliterate from '@sindresorhus/transliterate';
transliterate('Я люблю единорогов', {
customReplacements: [
['единорогов', '🦄']
]
})
//=> 'Ya lyublyu 🦄'
``
Most major languages are supported.
This includes special handling for:
- Arabic
- Armenian
- Czech
- Danish
- Dhivehi
- Georgian
- German (umlauts)
- Greek
- Hungarian
- Latin
- Latvian
- Lithuanian
- Macedonian
- Pashto
- Persian
- Polish
- Romanian
- Russian
- Serbian
- Slovak
- Swedish
- Turkish
- Ukrainian
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
However, Chinese is currently not supported.
- slugify - Slugify a string