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Convert Unicode characters to Latin characters using transliteration

transliterate

Convert Unicode characters to Latin characters using transliteration

Can be useful for slugification purposes and other times you cannot use Unicode.

Install

$ npm install @sindresorhus/transliterate

Usage

import transliterate from '@sindresorhus/transliterate';

transliterate('Fußgängerübergänge');
//=> 'Fussgaengeruebergaenge'

transliterate('Я люблю единорогов');
//=> 'Ya lyublyu edinorogov'

transliterate('أنا أحب حيدات');
//=> 'ana ahb hydat'

transliterate('tôi yêu những chú kỳ lân');
//=> 'toi yeu nhung chu ky lan'

API

transliterate(string, options?)

string

Type: string

String to transliterate.

options

Type: object

customReplacements

Type: Array<string[]>
Default: []

Add your own custom replacements.

The replacements are run on the original string before any other transformations.

This only overrides a default replacement if you set an item with the same key.

import transliterate from '@sindresorhus/transliterate';

transliterate('Я люблю единорогов', {
	customReplacements: [
		['единорогов', '🦄']
	]
})
//=> 'Ya lyublyu 🦄'

Supported languages

Most major languages are supported.

This includes special handling for:

• Arabic
• Armenian
• Czech
• Danish
• Dhivehi
• Georgian
• German (umlauts)
• Greek
• Hungarian
• Latin
• Latvian
• Lithuanian
• Macedonian
• Pashto
• Persian
• Polish
• Romanian
• Russian
• Serbian
• Slovak
• Swedish
• Turkish
• Ukrainian
• Urdu
• Vietnamese

However, Chinese is currently not supported.

Related

• slugify - Slugify a string