feat: improve performance and reduce package size, plus added a latin only mode

Author: yf-hk

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -1,49 +1,56 @@
 # Changelog
 
+## 2.5.0
+
+- **Performance**: Switched to 2D array lookup for ~26% faster transliteration
+- **New Feature**: Added Latin-only build (`transliteration/latin`) for minimal bundle size (~5 KB vs ~186 KB)
+- **Optimization**: Korean Hangul characters now computed algorithmically at runtime (saves 11,172 entries)
+- **Internal**: Refactored charmap data structure into chunked files for better tree-shaking
+
 ## 2.4.0
 
-- Modernized toolchain: migrated from Rollup/Babel to tsup/Bun for faster builds
-- Added comprehensive test suites with 100% code coverage
-- Fixed slugify to collapse consecutive separators (e.g., `hello---world` → `hello-world`)
-- Fixed slugify to properly strip leading/trailing separators
-- Replaced TSLint/Prettier with Biome for linting
-- Minimum Node.js requirement is now v20.0.0
-- Refactored utilities and added edge case handling
-- Added Vitest as modern test runner with jsdom environment for browser tests
+- **Tooling**: Migrated from Rollup/Babel to tsup/Bun for faster builds
+- **Testing**: Added comprehensive test suites with 100% code coverage
+- **Fix**: Slugify now collapses consecutive separators (e.g., `hello---world` → `hello-world`)
+- **Fix**: Slugify now properly strips leading/trailing separators
+- **Tooling**: Replaced TSLint/Prettier with Biome for linting
+- **Breaking**: Minimum Node.js requirement is now v20.0.0
+- **Internal**: Refactored utilities and added edge case handling
+- **Testing**: Added Vitest as modern test runner with jsdom environment for browser tests
 
 ## 2.2.0
 
-- Fixed data issue (#229)
-- Added `fixChineseSpacing` option for improving performance with non-Chinese languages
-- Fixed replace-related issues (#202)
-- Updated dependencies
+- **Fix**: Fixed data issue (#229)
+- **New Feature**: Added `fixChineseSpacing` option for improving performance with non-Chinese languages
+- **Fix**: Fixed replace-related issues (#202)
+- **Internal**: Updated dependencies
 
 ## 2.1.0
 
-- Added `transliterate` as a global variable for browser builds (kept `transl` for backward compatibility)
+- **New Feature**: Added `transliterate` as a global variable for browser builds (kept `transl` for backward compatibility)
 
 ## 2.0.0
 
 - **Breaking**: CDN file structure changed — see [jsDelivr](https://www.jsdelivr.com/package/npm/transliteration)
-- Refactored entire module in TypeScript with significant performance improvements and reduced package size
-- Improved code quality with 100% unit test coverage
-- Dropped `bower` support — use CDN or bundlers like webpack/rollup instead
-- Per RFC 3986, more characters (`a-zA-Z0-9-_.~`) are now allowed in `slugify` output (configurable)
-- Added `uppercase` option for `slugify` to convert output to uppercase
-- Unknown characters are now transliterated as empty string by default (previously `[?]`)
+- **Performance**: Refactored entire module in TypeScript with significant performance improvements and reduced package size
+- **Testing**: Improved code quality with 100% unit test coverage
+- **Breaking**: Dropped `bower` support — use CDN or bundlers like webpack/rollup instead
+- **New Feature**: Per RFC 3986, more characters (`a-zA-Z0-9-_.~`) are now allowed in `slugify` output (configurable)
+- **New Feature**: Added `uppercase` option for `slugify` to convert output to uppercase
+- **Breaking**: Unknown characters are now transliterated as empty string by default (previously `[?]`)
 
 ## 1.6.6
 
-- Added TypeScript support (#77)
+- **New Feature**: Added TypeScript support (#77)
 
 ## 1.5.0
 
-- Minimum Node.js requirement: v6.0+
+- **Breaking**: Minimum Node.js requirement: v6.0+
 
 ## 1.0.0
 
 - **Breaking**: Entire codebase refactored — upgrade carefully from v0.1.x or v0.2.x
-- The `options` parameter of `transliterate` is now an object (previously a string for `unknown`)
-- Added `transliterate.config()` and `slugify.config()` methods
-- Unknown characters are now transliterated as `[?]` instead of `?`
-- Browser global variables changed to `window.transl` and `window.slugify` (other globals removed)
+- **Breaking**: The `options` parameter of `transliterate` is now an object (previously a string for `unknown`)
+- **New Feature**: Added `transliterate.config()` and `slugify.config()` methods
+- **Breaking**: Unknown characters are now transliterated as `[?]` instead of `?`
+- **Breaking**: Browser global variables changed to `window.transl` and `window.slugify` (other globals removed)

README.md

@@ -22,6 +22,7 @@ A universal Unicode to Latin transliteration and slug generation library. Design
   - [transliterate()](#transliteratestr-options)
   - [slugify()](#slugifystr-options)
   - [CLI](#cli-usage)
+- [Latin-Only Mode](#latin-only-mode)
 - [Known Issues](#known-issues)
 - [License](#license)
 
@@ -267,6 +268,27 @@ Examples:
   slugify "你好，世界!" -i 你好 -i ，
 ```
 
+## Latin-Only Mode
+
+For applications that only need to transliterate Latin-based scripts (Western European languages), you can use the lightweight Latin-only build for significantly smaller bundle size:
+
+```javascript
+// Full build: ~186 KB (all scripts including CJK, Korean, etc.)
+import { transliterate, slugify } from 'transliteration';
+
+// Latin-only build: ~5 KB (Basic Latin + Latin Extended only)
+import { transliterate, slugify } from 'transliteration/latin';
+```
+
+The Latin-only build supports:
+
+- Basic ASCII (U+0000-U+007F)
+- Latin-1 Supplement (U+0080-U+00FF)
+- Latin Extended-A (U+0100-U+017F)
+- Latin Extended-B (U+0180-U+024F)
+
+This is ideal for applications that only handle Western European languages and want to minimize bundle size.
+
 ## Known Issues
 
 This library uses 1-to-1 Unicode code point mapping, which provides broad language coverage but has inherent limitations with context-dependent characters (e.g., polyphonic characters where pronunciation varies by context). Thorough testing with your target languages is recommended before production use.

biome.json

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       "suspicious": {
         "noConsole": "off",
         "noBitwiseOperators": "off"
+      },
+      "style": {
+        "useForOf": "off"
       }
     }
   },

data/charmap-latin.ts

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+// Latin-only charmap - minimal bundle for Latin scripts
+// Only includes 0x00-0x02 (Basic Latin + Latin Extended)
+
+import x00 from './chunks/x00';
+import x01 from './chunks/x01';
+import x02 from './chunks/x02';
+
+export interface Charmap {
+  [key: string]: string;
+}
+
+// 2D array: _[high][low]
+const _: (string | null)[][] = [];
+_[0x00] = x00;
+_[0x01] = x01;
+_[0x02] = x02;
+
+// Fast lookup function - Latin only
+export function lookup(char: string): string {
+  const code = char.charCodeAt(0);
+  const high = code >> 8;
+  const low = code & 0xff;
+
+  const chunk = _[high];
+  if (chunk) {
+    return chunk[low] ?? '';
+  }
+  return '';
+}
+
+// Backwards-compatible charmap object
+export const charmap: Charmap = new Proxy({} as Charmap, {
+  get(_, prop: string) {
+    if (typeof prop === 'string' && prop.length > 0) {
+      return lookup(prop) || undefined;
+    }
+    return undefined;
+  },
+  has(_, prop: string) {
+    if (typeof prop === 'string' && prop.length > 0) {
+      return lookup(prop) !== '';
+    }
+    return false;
+  }
+});

data/charmap.ts

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data/chunks/x00.ts

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data/chunks/x01.ts

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data/chunks/x02.ts

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data/chunks/x03.ts

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