ascii-name

Return name(s) of ASCII code characters in multiple languages.

Install

$ npm install ascii-name

Usage

// For ESM (Modern Node.js / Vite / Next.js etc.)
import asciiName from 'ascii-name';

// For CommonJS (Legacy Node.js)
const asciiName = require('ascii-name');

// String is supported
asciiName.getName(':');     // returns 'colon'

// ASCII decimal value is supported
asciiName.getName(58);      // returns 'colon'

// Multiple names supported (if available in JSON)
asciiName.getName('#');        // returns 'number sign' (default index 0)
asciiName.getName('#', 0);     // returns 'number sign'
asciiName.getName('#', 1);     // returns 'pound' (see ascii-name_en.json)

// Multi-language support
asciiName.setLanguage('ko');   // set language code (Korean)
asciiName.getLanguage();       // returns 'ko' (Default: 'en')

asciiName.getName(':');        // returns '콜론' from ascii-name_ko.json
asciiName.getName(0);          // returns 'null' from ascii-name_en.json (fallback to default language if not in current)

Supported Languages

• en: English
• de: German
• es: Spanish
• fr: French
• it: Italian
• pt: Portuguese
• ru: Russian
• hi: Hindi
• ar: Arabic
• ko: Korean
• ja: Japanese
• zh: Chinese

Contributing

Feel free to contribute by adding more languages or reporting issues! Make a Pull Request at ascii-name if needed.

License

MIT License © Heeseong Yoo