NATO Callout Decoder - jQuery plugin

NatoCallout takes a string (as the option "decode") and, using the the NATO phonetic alphabet*, returns a string with the corresponding callout for each character of the "decode" string. Optionally it will append this string to the selected element(s). This is super useful to help users communicate things like registration codes to others verbally.

var decodeString = $.NatoCallout({'decode': 'This is a test'});

var decodeString = $.NatoCallout('This is a test');

Will both set the variable "decodeString" to:

Tango Hotel India Sierra -SPACE- India Sierra -SPACE- Alpha -SPACE- Tango Echo Sierra Tango

$('#element').NatoCallout({'decode': 'This is a test'});

Will append the following to the element "element":

Tango Hotel India Sierra -SPACE- India Sierra -SPACE- Alpha -SPACE- Tango Echo Sierra Tango

Below are the options which can be provided to NatoCallout along with their defaults:

{
      'decode'      : 'NatoCallout',
      'prefix'      : ' ',
      'postfix'     : '',
      'includeCase' : false,
      'upperOnly'   : true,
      'shortCase'   : false
}

• Decode: the string to decode to the NATO phonetic alphabet
• Prefix: the text and/or HTML to prepend to each decoded character (default is a space)
• Postfix: the text and/or HTML to append to each decoded character
• Include Case: whether or not to prepend the case of the decoded character to the decode
• Upper Only: whether or not to prepend the case of the decoded character to the decode ONLY if it is uppercase (ignored if includeCase is false)
• Short Case: whether or not to prepend the case of the decoded character to the decode using the corresponding "short" version (Uppercase = Upper, Lowercase = Lower) (ignored if includeCase is false)

If we wanted to make a simple list we could add a postfix of say, a line break:

$('#element').NatoCallout({'decode': 'This is a test', 'postfix': '<br />'});

Producing:

Tango
Hotel
India
Sierra
-SPACE-
India
Sierra
-SPACE-
Alpha
-SPACE-
Tango
Echo
Sierra
Tango

We could also get fancy, and do things like insert the callout into an ordered or unordered list, or a table:

$('#element').NatoCallout({'decode': 'This is a test', 'prefix': '<li>', 'postfix': '</li>'});

$('#element').NatoCallout({'decode': 'This is a test', 'prefix': '<tr><td>', 'postfix': '</td></tr>'});

If element "element" were an unordered list, with the first example the output would be:

• Tango
• Hotel
• India
• Sierra
• -SPACE-
• India
• Sierra
• -SPACE-
• Alpha
• -SPACE-
• Tango
• Echo
• Sierra
• Tango

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NATO_phonetic_alphabet