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Mohammad Mz
Mohammad Mz

Reputation: 41

How to replace the initial form of an Arabic letter using PHP?

I have an Arabic text and want to replace "Initial" & "Medial" forms of some letters (not all forms) with other letters or characters;

Example:

$text = '...وقد تم تصميم وبناء جميع مكونات الطائرة';

I need to replace the Initial form of letter "ت" which is in the word "تم" with another letter; available "ت" in "مكونات" that is the Final form of this letter shall not be replaced.

It seems character codes (Unicode) cannot be used in str_replace() to find a specific form of a letter and replace it.

Note:

Most Arabic letters have different froms:

see wikipedia.org for more information.

Upvotes: 4

Views: 496

Answers (2)

Louay Alakkad
Louay Alakkad

Reputation: 7408

Letter forms are used for output only. They shouldn't be stored and/or manipulated in this way. You should find another way to do what you want.

Try RegExp. This might help you. http://php.net/manual/en/regexp.reference.unicode.php

Or, if you insist on using str_replace, you can do this.

str_replace(
  ' ت',
  ' وت',
  $string
);

Upvotes: -1

chandan vishwakarma
chandan vishwakarma

Reputation: 53

Here i have given piece of code..hope will work for you$text = '...وقد تم تصميم وبناء جميع مكونات الطائرة'; $a=array('ت','تم'); $b=array('ت','مكونات');`` echo str_replace($a,$b,$text);

Upvotes: 0

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