myanmar-sort

Sorting Myanmar / Burmese text is hard! This uses a big JSON tree to help you quickly sort in JavaScript.

If you are sorting names, use the myanmar-names module instead! It will remove prefixes before passing them to this module.

Usage

If you are on the client-side, don't load this huge library! Use new Intl.Collator(["my-MM", "my"]) instead! Unfortunately Intl.Collator and the Myanmar locale are often not supported.

On the server-side, you can skip this module by installing Node with full locale support (brew reinstall node --with-full-icu) or follow instructions on how to add more locales to your current install with npm install -g full-icu.

npm install myanmar-sort

var myanmarSort = require("myanmar-sort");

place1 = 'ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်';
place2 = 'ရန်ကုန်တိုင်းဒေသကြီး';
place3 = 'ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်';
[place1, place2, place3].sort(myanmarSort);

You can also pass a function to retrieve the text that you sort by:

states = [
  { name: 'ရခိုင်ပြည်နယ်' },
  { name: 'ချင်းပြည်နယ်' },
  { name: 'ရှမ်းပြည်နယ်' }
];
states.sort(myanmarSort(function (state) {
  return state.name;
}));

Contributions and bugs

The JSON tree isn't complete! Please let me know if you find bugs, and add mocha tests to test/index.js

License

Open source under an MIT license