coptic-antonios-unicode

Convert text encoded in the Antonios Coptic font (Latin keyboard layout) to Coptic Unicode.

Dictionary PDFs and legacy Coptic texts often used custom fonts where Latin letters stand in for Coptic characters — for example amyn instead of ⲁⲙⲏⲛ. This package maps those characters using the Antonios font table.

Unmapped characters (spaces, slashes, hyphens, digits, etc.) are left unchanged.

Install

npm install coptic-antonios-unicode

npmjs.com/package/coptic-antonios-unicode

Usage

CommonJS

const { toUnicode } = require('coptic-antonios-unicode');

const antoniosFontText = 'amyn';
console.log(toUnicode(antoniosFontText));
// ⲁⲙⲏⲛ

ES modules

import { toUnicode } from 'coptic-antonios-unicode';

const antoniosFontText = 'Taisoury';
console.log(toUnicode(antoniosFontText));
// Ⲧⲁⲓϣⲟⲩⲣⲏ

Empty or missing input

toUnicode('');        // ''
toUnicode(null);      // ''
toUnicode(undefined); // ''

API

toUnicode(text)

Converts an Antonios-font Latin string to Coptic Unicode.

| Parameter | Type | Description | |-----------|--------|---------------------------| | text | string | Latin-encoded Coptic text |

Returns: string — Coptic Unicode text. Returns '' for falsy input.

TypeScript

Types are included — no @types package needed.

import { toUnicode } from 'coptic-antonios-unicode';

const coptic: string = toUnicode('Taisoury');
// Ⲧⲁⲓϣⲟⲩⲣⲏ

Works with moduleResolution: "node16", "nodenext", or "bundler".

License

MIT