text-unidecode

text-unidecode converts Unicode text into an ASCII-heavy, human-readable approximation (rough transliteration). It is useful for slugs, logs, search indexes, and anywhere you need a plain-ASCII stand-in for arbitrary Unicode.

Maintained by Muhammad Ali. Repository: github.com/maliuppal/text-unidecode.

Install

npm install text-unidecode

Usage

const unidecode = require('text-unidecode');

unidecode('aéà)àçé');
// => 'aea)ace'

unidecode('に間違いがないか、再度確認してください。再読み込みしてください。');
// => 'niJian Wei iganaika, Zai Du Que Ren sitekudasai. Zai Du miIp misitekudasai. '

Custom replacement for unmappable characters

unidecode('ab\uFFFFc', 'X');
// => 'abXc'

unidecode('ab\uFFFFc');
// => 'abc'

Package layout

| Path | Purpose | |------|---------| | lib/unidecode.js | Entry point | | data/x*.js | Per–Unicode-block lookup tables |

Changelog

See CHANGELOG.md.

License

This project is licensed under the MIT License.

Transliteration data and incorporated third-party code are described in THIRD-PARTY-NOTICES.md.

Donate

I maintain this project in my free time. If it helped you, please support my work via PayPal. Thanks a lot!