@ambertide/basehieroglyph

A Base1024 text encoding library... with hieroglyphs!

Testimonials

𓂋𓐍𓏜𓆑𓋴𓐍𓂋𓏜𓇋𓋴𓊪𓅱𓄤𓆑𓂋 👍

• 𓁗𓃔

Man this shit ain't valid hieroglyphics

• Jean-François Champollion

What??

Ever wanted to encode arbitirary text strings in Egyptian Hieroglyphics? AND it probably[^1] handles Unicode? Seek no more friend! With this Base1024 Unicode to Egyptian Hieroglyphics encoder/decoder library you too can convert and deconvert your arbitirary text into hierostrings, in a safe[^2], fast[^3] and memory efficent[^4] manner.

[^1]: I am pretty sure this works most of the time, 90% of the time but, like, don't depend on this on production lol. [^2]: It has tests and stuff. [^3]: Okay, look, Javascript really wants to work with bytes so I go through a few loops to convert from uint8 to uint10 to hieroglyphics so it is probably slow as f u c k, but does it matter? at the grand scheme of things aren't we all brothers and sisters? aren't we all living under the same sun? [^4]: This will crash on big payloads 🙏

Frequently Asked Questions

This doesn't translate actual sentences, right?

No, it simply encodes your text, just like Base64, but rather than taking 6-bits and encoding to 64 values, it takes 10 bits and encodes to 1024... hieroglyphs, a hierostring, if you will.

You wrote this with AI, right? You haven't spent actual...

...Time on this? You bet I did! I am perfectly capable of producing slop on my own.

### But... this has tests and... YOU SPENT ACTUAL FREE TIME FOR THIS?

Oh yes, I am actually quite proud of the way conversion works, essentially:

stateDiagram-v2
    direction LR
    [*] --> string
    string --> u8[]
    u8[] --> u40[]
    u40[] --> u10[]
    u10[] --> 𓆍𓈗𓄀𓀀
    𓆍𓈗𓄀𓀀 --> [*]

For encoding, and reverse for decoding, and you pad and then de-pad on u40[] conversions.

But I thought Javascript didn't have uint40 and uint10?

It doesn't, I manually convert them.

Jesus Christ...

Yeah...

What even is the use case man?

This has so many valid use cases that it would be a waste of time to list all of them.