Alphabets

A tiny JS package that exports many different alphabets for many different use cases.


Included alphabets

See below for usage instructions.

| Export name | Alphabet |
|------------------|------------------|
| danish | Danish, same as Norwegian |
| faroese | Faroese |
| greek | Greek |
| icelandic | Icelandic |
| latin | Latin (abcdefg etc.) |
| nato | NATO phonetic alphabet |
| norwegian | Norwegian, same as Danish |
| polish | Polish |
| russian | Russian |
| swedish | Swedish |
| ukrainian | Ukrainian |

Installation

Install the alphabets npm module using your preferred package manager:

* npm: npm install alphabets
* Yarn: yarn add alphabets
* pnpm: pnpm add alphabets

You can also use it with Deno by importing https://deno.land/x/alphabets/alphabets.mjs.

How to use

Replace with an alphabet identifier this package exports:

``js
import { } from 'alphabets';
`

Deno:

`js
import { } from 'https://deno.land/x/alphabets/alphabets.mjs';
`

or:

`js
const alphabets = require('alphabets');
console.log(alphabets.);
`

Why

I have seen code like this:

`js
const alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.split('');
`

Or even worse:

`js
const alphabet = ["a", "b", "c", "d", "e", "f", "g", "h", "i", "j", "k", "l", "m", "n", "o", "p", "q", "r", "s", "t", "u", "v", "w", "x", "y", "z"];
`

My opinion about this: it's ugly, and it pollutes your code. Instead, why not do it like this:

`js
import { latin } from 'alphabets';

for (const glyph of latin) {/ ... /}
`

This is much cleaner and more idiomatic.

Questions and bugs

Did you find a mistake in an alphabet, or another bug? Please report it — thank you! I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.

You may use the same issue form for questions, too.

Copyright

(c) 2021-2023 Romein van Buren. Licensed under the MIT license.

For the full copyright and license information, please see the LICENSE.md` file that was distributed with this source code.