https://github.com/stscoundrel/old-norse-alphabet-rs

Old Norse Alphabet constants & sorting in Rust
https://github.com/stscoundrel/old-norse-alphabet-rs

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Old Norse Alphabet constants & sorting in Rust

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/stscoundrel/old-norse-alphabet-rs
• Owner: stscoundrel
• License: mit
• Created: 2021-11-20T10:58:42.000Z (about 3 years ago)
• Default Branch: main
• Last Pushed: 2023-10-01T03:23:34.000Z (about 1 year ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-12T18:12:10.427Z (2 months ago)
• Topics: alphabet, medieval-languages, old-icelandic, old-norse, rust, sorting
• Language: Rust
• Homepage: https://docs.rs/old_norse_alphabet
• Size: 18.6 KB
• Stars: 0
• Watchers: 2
• Forks: 0
• Open Issues: 1
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: LICENSE

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# Old Norse Alphabet

Old Norse alphabet constants & sort for Rust

### Motivation

Old Norse constains letters that may be hard to type with most keyboards. Prime examples being þ, ð and ǫ. There are also some letters "missing", like c and q. This package offers the alphabet & tricky individual letters as constants.

Also provides sorting function to get the old norse alphabet order just right.

### Install

Add this to your `Cargo.toml`:

```toml

[dependencies]

old_norse_alphabet = "1.0.0"

```

### Usage

The crate offers Old Norse alphabet in lower/uppercases, and a function for sorting by old norse alphabetical order.

#### Sort

The crate exposes custom compare function for getting old norse alphabetical order just right.

```rust

use old_norse_alphabet::old_norse_sort;

// Sample vec of old norse words.

let mut words = vec!["öðli", "ógnan", "æðrask", "aðili", "þakkan", "áfir", "á-auki", "él-ligr", "maðka", "ef-lauss", "œgir", "áðr", "maðr", "madr", "mæðr"];

words.sort_by(|a, b| old_norse_sort(a, b));

// Sorted vec is: "aðili", "á-auki", "áðr", "áfir", "ef-lauss", "él-ligr", "madr", "maðka", "maðr", "mæðr", "ógnan", "þakkan", "æðrask", "œgir", "öðli"

```

#### Alphabet

To use the alphabet constants:

```rust

use old_norse_alphabet::{get_lowercase, get_uppercase};

// Outputs are [char; 34]

let lower = get_lowercase();

let upper = get_uppercase();

for (index, letter) in lower.iter().enumerate() {

    println!("{}. letter: {}", index + 1, letter) // eg. 5. letter: ð

}

```

Exposed special characters:

```rust

use old_norse_alphabet::{ETH, THORN, O_CAUDATA, SLASHED_O, AE, OE, ASH};

println!("{}", ETH); // ð

println!("{}", THORN); // þ

println!("{}", O_CAUDATA); // ǫ

println!("{}", SLASHED_O); // ø

println!("{}", AE); // æ

println!("{}", OE); // œ

println!("{}", ASH); // Alternative export of AE

```

### About Old Norse

[Old Norse](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Norse) was a North Germanic language that was spoken by inhabitants of Scandinavia and their overseas settlements from about the 7th to the 15th centuries.