Arabic

Romanization of Arabic. It transliterates Arabic text to the Roman (Latin) script.

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem "arabic"

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install arabic

require "arabic"

# Default Arabic transliteration
Arabic.transliterate("العربية")
# => "alerbyt"

# Short alias .t
Arabic.t("العربية")
# => "alerbyt"

# Urdu scheme
Arabic.t("اردو", :urdu)
# => "ardv"

# ISO 233 scheme
Arabic.t("اردو", :iso233)
# => "ʾrdw"

# Persian scheme
Arabic.t("فارسی", :persian)
# => "farsy"

# Numbers and punctuation
Arabic.t("٠١٢٣٤٥٦٧۸٩")
# => "0123456789"

You can also use arabic directly from the command line:

# Direct argument
$ arabic "العربية"
alerbyt

# Piped input (STDIN)
$ echo "العربية" | arabic
alerbyt

# File input
$ arabic text.txt

# Select transliteration scheme (default, urdu, iso233, persian)
$ arabic -s urdu "اردو"
ardv

$ arabic -s iso233 "كتاب"
ktʾb

$ arabic -s persian "فارسی"
farsy

After checking out the repo, run bin/setup to install dependencies. Then, run bundle exec rake to run tests and code style checks (RuboCop). You can also run bin/console for an interactive prompt that will allow you to experiment.

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install. To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/rovetz/arabic. This project is intended to be a safe, welcoming space for collaboration, and contributors are expected to adhere to the Contributor Covenant code of conduct.

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.

Everyone interacting in the Arabic project’s codebases, issue trackers, chat rooms and mailing lists is expected to follow the code of conduct.