Alphabets

Alphabets contains many different alphabets for many different use cases.

• Included alphabets
• How to use
  • JS module
  • JSON file
• Motivation
• Questions and bugs
• Copyright

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

How to use

JS module

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.

Replace <alphabetYouWantToUse> with an alphabet identifier this package exports:

import { <alphabetYouWantToUse> } from 'alphabets';

Deno:

import { <alphabetYouWantToUse> } from 'https://deno.land/x/alphabets/alphabets.mjs';

or:

const alphabets = require('alphabets');
console.log(alphabets.<alphabetYouWantToUse>);

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:

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

Or even worse:

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:

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) 2021-2024 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.