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.

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.