js-romanian-diacritics

Functions for converting Romanian diacritics from a text (converting characters - standard to traditional or traditional to standard, remove diacritics marks)

Usage

Standard/official diacritics

The standard function takes a string as an argument and replaces all of its traditional/incorrect Romanian diacritics with their corresponding standard/official counterpart.

const diacritics = require("js-romanian-diacritics");
diacritics.standard("Aştept să vinã colegii de muncã.");
  // Output: Aștept să vină colegii de muncă.

Traditional/incorrect diacritics

The traditional function takes a string as an argument and replaces all of its standard/official Romanian diacritics with their corresponding traditional/incorrect counterpart.

const diacritics = require("js-romanian-diacritics");
diacritics.traditional("Aștept să vină colegii de muncă.");
  // Output: Aştept să vinã colegii de muncã.

Without diacritics

The without function takes a string as an argument and replaces all the Romanian diacritics (the official character set, as well as incorrect representations of them) with their accentless counterpart.

const diacritics = require("js-romanian-diacritics");
diacritics.without("Aştept să vină colegii de muncă.");
  // Output: Astept sa vina colegii de munca.

Character set

There are six Romanian-specific characters that are incorrectly implemented in all Microsoft Windows versions before Vista:

U+0218 Ș LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW – incorrectly implemented as U+015E Ş LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA U+0219 ș LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW – incorrectly implemented as U+015F ş LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CEDILLA U+021A Ț LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW – incorrectly implemented as U+0162 Ţ LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA U+021B ț LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW – incorrectly implemented as U+0163 ţ LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH CEDILLA U+0102 Ă LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE – incorrectly implemented as U+00E3 ã LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH TILDE U+0103 ă LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE – incorrectly implemented as U+00C3 Ã LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH TILDE

These Unicode characters are the correct representations of Romanian diacritics:

Character	Unicode value	Unicode name
Ă	U+0102	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH BREVE
ă	U+0103	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH BREVE
Â	U+00C2	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
â	U+00E2	LATIN SMALL LETTER A WITH CIRCUMFLEX
Î	U+00CE	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S WITH CIRCUMFLEX
î	U+00EE	LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH CIRCUMFLEX
Ț	U+021A	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
ș	U+0219	LATIN SMALL LETTER S WITH COMMA BELOW
Ț	U+021A	LATIN CAPITAL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW
ț	U+021B	LATIN SMALL LETTER T WITH COMMA BELOW

Inspired by:

This project is inspired and it is a refinement of js-ro-diacritics

https://github.com/esevo-tech/js-ro-diacritics