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Normalise Arabic text for search and matching: remove diacritics and tatweel, unify alef forms and alef maqsura, convert between Arabic-Indic and Western digits.
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ان العلم نور، والجهل ظلام. رقم الطلب: 4527 — المبلغ 1٬250 ريال مستشفي الامل، مدينة جازان
110 characters in, 88 out
For a search index, normalise both the stored text and the query with the same rules.
const normalizeArabic = (text) =>
text
.replace(/(?=\p{scx=Arab})\p{Mn}/gu, '')
.replace(/ـ/g, '')
.replace(/[أإآٱ]/g, 'ا')
.replace(/ى/g, 'ي')
.replace(/[ \t]+/g, ' ').replace(/ *\n */g, '\n').trim()
.replace(/[٠-٩]/g, (d) => d.charCodeAt(0) - 1632).replace(/[۰-۹]/g, (d) => d.charCodeAt(0) - 1776)