node-icu-transliterator

This module provides node.js bindings for ICU’s Rule-Based Transliterators and Rule-Based Number Formats.

The module is published on NPM as icu-transliterator. To install it, you need to have ICU installed and accessible to pkg-config. On macOS, you can install ICU with Homebrew by running brew install icu4c. You can add it to the pkg-config path with export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/opt/icu4c/lib/pkgconfig.

Rule-Based Transliterators

Example:

let RBT = require('icu-transliterator').RBT;

let myRBT = RBT('Latin-Cyrillic', RBT.FORWARD);
myRBT.transliterate('mir'); // -> 'мир'

let myRBT = RBT.fromRules('a > b; b > a;', RBT.FORWARD);
myRBT.transliterate('abcd'); // -> 'bacd'

RBT.register('foo', 'a > c; b > d;');
let myRBT = RBT('foo', RBT.FORWARD);
myRBT.transliterate('abcd'); // -> 'cdcd'

RBT(id, dir) creates a transliterator from an ICU transliterator ID. The first argument is the ID. The optional second argument is the direction, either RBT.FORWARD (default) or RBT.REVERSE.

RBT.fromRules(rules, dir) creates a transliterator from a rules string. The first argument is rules string and the second argument is the direction, either RBT.FORWARD or RBT.REVERSE. If the second argument is omitted, it defaults to RBT.FORWARD.

The returned transliterator object has a single method transliterate. It takes one argument, a string to transliterate, and returns the transliterated string.

RBT.register(id, rules, dir) registers a new transliterator with ICU. The first argument is the new ID, the second argument is the rules string, and the optional third argument is the direction, either RBT.FORWARD (default) or RBT.REVERSE. Once registered, you can access the transliterator with RBT(id, dir).

Rule-Based Number Formats

Example:

let RBNF = require('icu-transliterator').RBNF;

let myRBNF = RBNF('eng');
myRBNF.format(14); //  -> 'fourteen'

let myRBNF = RBNF('eng', RBNF.ORDINAL);
myRBNF.format(14); //  -> '14th'

let myRBNF = RBNF.fromRules('-x: minus >>; x.x: << point >>; zero; one; two; three; four; five; six; seven; eight; nine; 10: << >>; 100: << >>>; 1000: <<, >>>; 1,000,000: <<, >>>; 1,000,000,000: <<, >>>; 1,000,000,000,000: <<, >>>; 1,000,000,000,000,000: =#,##0=; ');
myRBNF.format(1.1); // -> 'one point one'

RBNF(language, tag) creates a number formatter for a built-in ICU locale. The first argument is the language code (ISO 639 alpha-2 or alpha-3). The optional second argument is one of RBNF.SPELLOUT (default), RBNF.ORDINAL, RBNF.DURATION, or RBNF.NUMBERING_SYSTEM.

RBNF.fromRules(rules) creates a number formatter from the passed-in rules string.

The returned formatter object has a single method format. It takes one argument, a number to format, and returns the formatted string.