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Hata旗

Load a native country or region flag, choose supported framing and keep each drawing’s source, author and licence.

Hata (旗) is Japanese for a flag. About the name

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Reference · Country and region names

flagNamefunction

The name of a flag's place, in English or Japanese, as Kuni gives it: what a screen reader should say for the flag, or a caption. Any language tag that starts with ja is Japanese; anything else is English.

Import it

import { flagName } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hata/names";

Definition

function flagName(code: string, lang?: string): string | null

Parameters

NameTypeDescription
codestring

A flag's code, in any case: "JP", "jp-13", "CA-ON".

lang (optional)string

"en" (the default), "ja", or a language tag such as "ja-JP" or "en-GB".

Returns

string | null

The name, or null when the code has no flag here.

Examples

import { flagName } from "@johnmorrisdotca/hata/names";

console.log(flagName("JP-13"));        // "Tokyo"
console.log(flagName("jp-13", "ja"));  // "東京都"
console.log(flagName("DE-BY", "ja-JP")); // "バイエルン自由州"
console.log(flagName("XX"));           // null
Tokyo
東京都
バイエルン自由州
null

What it prints (run when this page was built)

View sourceEdit on GitHubMade from the source of @johnmorrisdotca/hata 1.6.0.