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A collection of many different alphabets for many different use cases.
https://github.com/garraflavatra/alphabets
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A collection of many different alphabets for many different use cases.
- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/garraflavatra/alphabets
- Owner: garraflavatra
- License: mit
- Created: 2021-05-24T10:00:21.000Z (over 3 years ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-08-06T12:39:43.000Z (3 months ago)
- Last Synced: 2024-10-28T13:37:18.357Z (10 days ago)
- Topics: alphabets, javascript, languages
- Language: JavaScript
- Homepage: https://www.smartyellow.nl/opensource/alphabets
- Size: 373 KB
- Stars: 1
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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Metadata Files:
- Readme: README.md
- Changelog: CHANGELOG.md
- License: LICENSE.md
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# Alphabets
Alphabets contains many different alphabets for many different use cases.
[](https://www.npmjs.com/package/alphabets)
- [Included alphabets](#included-alphabets)
- [How to use](#how-to-use)
- [JS module](#js-module)
- [JSON file](#json-file)
- [Motivation](#motivation)
- [Questions and bugs](#questions-and-bugs)
- [Copyright](#copyright)
## Included alphabets
See below for [usage instructions](#how-to-use).
| Export name | Alphabet |
|------------------|------------------|
| `danish` | [Danish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_orthography), same as Norwegian |
| `faroese` | [Faroese](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Faroese_orthography) |
| `greek` | [Greek](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet) |
| `icelandic` | [Icelandic](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icelandic_orthography) |
| `latin` | [Latin](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_alphabet) (abcdefg etc.) |
| `nato` | [NATO phonetic alphabet](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet) |
| `norwegian` | [Norwegian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Danish_and_Norwegian_alphabet), same as Danish |
| `polish` | [Polish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish_alphabet) |
| `russian` | [Russian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_alphabet) |
| `swedish` | [Swedish](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedish_alphabet) |
| `ukrainian` | [Ukrainian](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_alphabet) |
## How to use
### JS module
Install the [alphabets npm module](https://www.npmjs.com/package/alphabets) using your preferred package manager:
* npm: `npm install alphabets`
* Yarn: `yarn add alphabets`
* pnpm: `pnpm add alphabets`
You can also use it with [Deno](https://deno.land/) by importing `https://deno.land/x/alphabets/alphabets.mjs`.
Replace `` with an [alphabet identifier](#included-alphabets) 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.);
```
### JSON file
Or load the JSON file with alphabets directly from a CDN:
* https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/npm/alphabets@2/alphabets.json
* https://unpkg.com/alphabets@2/alphabets.json
## Motivation
I have seen [code like this](https://github.com/search?q=%27abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz%27.split%28%27%27%29+language%3AJavaScript&type=code&l=JavaScript):
```js
const alphabet = 'abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz'.split('');
```
Or [even worse](https://github.com/search?q=%5B%22a%22%2C+%22b%22%2C+%22c%22%2C+%22d%22%2C+%22e%22%2C+%22f%22%2C+%22g%22%2C+%22h%22%2C+%22i%22%2C+%22j%22%2C+%22k%22%2C+%22l%22%2C+%22m%22%2C+%22n%22%2C+%22o%22%2C+%22p%22%2C+%22q%22%2C+%22r%22%2C+%22s%22%2C+%22t%22%2C+%22u%22%2C+%22v%22%2C+%22w%22%2C+%22x%22%2C+%22y%22%2C+%22z%22%5D+language%3AJavaScript&type=code&l=JavaScript):
```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 verbose, ugly, and it pollutes your code. Instead, why not [do it like this](#how-to-use):
```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](https://github.com/garraflavatra/alphabets/issues/new) — thank you! I'll try to fix it as soon as possible.
You may use the same issue form for questions, too.
## Copyright
(c) 2021-2024 [Romein van Buren](mailto:[email protected]). Licensed under the MIT license.
For the full copyright and license information, please see the [`LICENSE.md`](./LICENSE.md) file that was distributed with this source code.
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