GoArabic

A Go Lang package for dealing with Arabic text.

This is an initial work on a set of Go functions developed to enhance Arabic web applications. It all started when I wanted to develop a self-hosted no-dependency and standalone Arabic Captcha in Go (for fun, as I'm discovering Go), and as expected, the Arabic text wasn't rendered as it should:

So I started playing with Glyphs, unicode, and the special Arabic rules for joining letters. After a bit of work, I got this:

shouldn't this be a separated package, along with other functionalities? I guess it should!

Current functionalities

• Glyph representation of the given Arabic text for images/pdf .. etc generation.
• Strip Tashkeel (Arabic Vowels).
• SmartLengh: return the length of the given Arabic String without considering Tashkeel (Arabic Vowels).
• Strip Tatweel
• rune-wise (UTF-8) reverse of the Arabic text, leaving out the Latin one.

Todo

• Arabic text normalization (Unshaping)
• Add support for some special Quran text characters in Glyphs
• Richer SmartLengh, ignoring some special characters.
• Slugify: a simple Arabic slug generation. Striping Tashkeel and other special chars.
• Spell numbers in Arabic idiom.
• Present dates in Arabic or Hijri and convert Hijri date into Unix timestamp And maybe more...

Usage

Importing

go get github.com/01walid/goarabic

Example Usage

package main

import (
    "fmt"
    "github.com/01walid/goarabic"
)

func main() {
    fmt.Println(goarabic.RemoveTashkeel("نًصٌ عَربيُّ"))
    fmt.Println(goarabic.ToGlyph("تجربة النص العربي"))
}

Documentation

Package docs available on gopkgdoc.

Contributing

Contributions are greatly appreciated. Please fork this repository, make your changes, and open a pull request. More test cases and considerations might be needed, you can run tests using go test for the existing functionalities.

This a SemVersioned package.

License

MIT License.