stringlang
Utility functions for analyzing strings by Unicode block
Installation
npm i @broofa/stringlang
import {unicodeBlock, unicodeBlockCount, BLOCKS} from 'stringlang';unicodeBlock()
Get block of a given character or code point.
Note: Runs at 10M+ chars/second on a modern Mac laptop (test data)
// Get block (codePoint)
unicodeBlock(30028); // => 'CJK Unified Ideographs'// Get block (string)
unicodeBlock('界'); // => 'CJK Unified Ideographs'// Get block (string, character index)
unicodeBlock('Aα界', 2); // => 'CJK Unified Ideographs'unicodeBlockCount()
Count characters by block
unicodeBlockCount('Hello World or Καλημέρα κόσμε or こんにちは 世界'); // =>
// {
// 'Basic Latin': 21,
// 'CJK Unified Ideographs': 2,
// 'Greek and Coptic': 13,
// Hiragana: 5
// }BLOCKS
Array of [block name, min code point, max code point] entries, ordered by code point.
BLOCKS; // =>
// [
// [ 'Basic Latin', 0, 127 ],
// [ 'Latin-1 Supplement', 128, 255 ],
// ... 308 more entries
// ]