@kmdavis/carmen

Carmen

What in the world is en-US-sandiego?

Carmen.js is, in a nutshell, a RFC-4646 & RFC-5646 parser. In other words, Carmen will parse strings like "en-US-sandiego" and tell you that it refers to the english language, in the United States, specifically, the variant spoken in San Diego.

Installation

npm install @kmdavis/carmen

Usage

import carmen from "@kmdavis/carmen";
carmen("en-US");

will return

{
  text: "en-US",
  language: "en",
  region: "US",
}

and

carmen("sl-Latn-IT-nedis");

will return

{
  text: "sl-Latn-IT-nedis",
  language: "sl",
  script: "Latn'"
  region: "IT",
  variants: ["nedis"],
}

The full list of fields that Carmen can return is:

{
  text:        String,
  language:    String,
  extlangs:    [String],
  script:      String,
  region:      String,
  variants:   [String],
  extensions:  Object,
  private:    [String],
  grandfather: String
}

Please note that the "text" field is Not the original string that is passed in. This string is reconstructed from the parsed values; as such, any minor formatting errors (such as the common Internet Exploder bug where en-US becomes en_US) will be normalized.

Development setup

npm install
npm test

Release History

• 0.1.0
  • Initial public release
• 0.2.0
  • Rewrite using modern javascript

Meta

Kevan Davis [e-mail]

Distributed under the MIT license.

https://github.com/kmdavis/carmen

Contributing

1. Fork it (https://github.com/kmdavis/carmen/fork)
2. Create your feature branch (git checkout -b feature/fooBar)
3. Commit your changes (git commit -am 'Add some fooBar')
4. Push to the branch (git push origin feature/fooBar)
5. Create a new Pull Request