Random greek alphabet letter

[Shinigami92]

Clear and concise description of the problem

As a user I want to generate a random greek letter so that I can prepend this to a name of an object.

I would like to have the option to get a short or a long version of a letter (α or 'alpha').
Maybe Α and άλφα could also somehow get returned.

Suggested solution

const cameraName = 'Camera ' + faker.<?>.greekLetter({ format: 'long' });

const cameraName2 = faker.helpers.mustache('Camera {{greekLetter({format:"long"})}}');

I'm open to other ideas

Alternative

No response

Additional context

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_alphabet#Letters

[ST-DDT]

AFAICT you use the greek characters to name or enumerate things. Why dont you use numbers or letters instead?

If we add support for greek characters, what about russian letters or chinese word letters or math symbols?

[Shinigami92]

AFAICT you use the greek characters to name or enumerate things. Why dont you use numbers or letters instead?

If we add support for greek characters, what about russian letters or chinese word letters or math symbols?

Yeah, I also thought about these. So maybe we could implement:

faker.locale = 'el'
faker.<?>.letter(...)

The above was just my current use-case, I'm open to broader suggestions

[Ranguna]

Hmmmm... Not sure if something like this would be a little better:

faker.<?>.letter({locale: 'el'})

This way we can do several calls in a row using a different locale config instead of having to change locale between each call.
If we decide to go forward with that, adding an option to return uppercase characters would also be nice.

Also, could we extend random.alpha for this use case instead of adding a new function ?