https://github.com/ynakajima/ucd

UCD - Unicode Character Database for JavaScript
https://github.com/ynakajima/ucd

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UCD - Unicode Character Database for JavaScript

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/ynakajima/ucd
• Owner: ynakajima
• License: mit
• Created: 2013-01-06T22:51:44.000Z (almost 12 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2013-04-27T08:07:09.000Z (over 11 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-10-13T10:58:32.598Z (about 2 months ago)
• Language: JavaScript
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• Size: 1.13 MB
• Stars: 9
• Watchers: 6
• Forks: 1
• Open Issues: 4
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  • Readme: README.md
  • License: MIT-LICENSE.txt

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README

        
# UCD - Unicode Character Database for JavaScript

UCD offers a series of functions that provide a simple interface to the Unicode Character Database.

# Supported Platforms

* Node.js

* Modern Web Browsers

## Install to Node.js

```sh

npm install ucd

```

## How to load a UCD module

### Node.js

```javascript

// load UCD

var UCD = require('ucd');

```

### Web Browser

```html

```

## Usage

### Get Unicode Name

`.getName()` method returns a Unicode Name of character given as argument.

```javascript

UCD.getName('@'); // "COMMERCIAL AT"

UCD.getName('2'); // "DIGIT TWO"

UCD.getName('L'); // "LATIN CAPITAL LETTER L"

UCD.getName('m'); // "LATIN SMALL LETTER M"

UCD.getName('ü'); // "LATIN SMALL LETTER U WITH DIAERESIS"

UCD.getName('ſt'); // "LATIN SMALL LIGATURE LONG S T"

UCD.getName('ق'); // "ARABIC LETTER QAF"

UCD.getName('תּ'); // "HEBREW LETTER TAV WITH DAGESH"

UCD.getName('あ'); // "HIRAGANA LETTER A"

UCD.getName('か'); // "HIRAGANA LETTER KA"

UCD.getName('ヨ'); // "KATAKANA LETTER YO"

UCD.getName('）'); // "FULLWIDTH RIGHT PARENTHESIS"

UCD.getName('漢'); // "CJK UNIFIED IDEOGRAPH-6F22"

UCD.getName('⿒'); // "KANGXI RADICAL TOOTH"

UCD.getName('㉀'); // "PARENTHESIZED IDEOGRAPH FESTIVAL"

UCD.getName('☣'); // "BIOHAZARD SIGN"

```

## License

Released under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2013 ynakajima