Class: ArabicLatinTranslator

Inherits:
Object
  • Object
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Defined in:
lib/raramorph/arabic_latin_translator.rb

Overview

Class For Arabic Latin Transileration

Author

eSpace technologies www.eSpace.com.eg

Copyright

2008

Constant Summary collapse

TABLE =

  • Table Used for Tranlation From Arabic To English I.e ( Romanize Word )

  • According to Buckwalter system Dictionary

{ "\u0621"=> "'" , "\u0622"=> "|" , "\u0623"=> ">" , "\u0624"=> "&" , "\u0625"=> "<" , "\u0626"=> "}" ,
"\u0627"=> "A" , "\u0628"=> "b" , "\u0629"=> "p" , "\u062A"=> "t" , "\u062B"=> "v" , "\u062C"=> "j" ,
"\u062D"=> "H" , "\u062E"=> "x" , "\u062F"=> "d" , "\u0630"=> "*" , "\u0631"=> "r" , "\u0632"=> "z" ,
"\u0633"=> "s" , "\u0634"=> "$" , "\u0635"=> "S" , "\u0636"=> "D" , "\u0637"=> "T" ,"\u0638"=> "Z",
"\u0639"=> "E" , "\u063A"=> "g" , "\u0640"=> "_" , "\u0641"=> "f" , "\u0642"=> "q" , "\u0643"=> "k" , 
"\u0644"=> "l" , "\u0645"=> "m" , "\u0646"=> "n" , "\u0647"=> "h" , "\u0648"=> "w" , "\u0649"=> "Y", 
"\u064A"=> "y" , "\u064B"=> "F" , "\u064C"=> "N" , "\u064D"=> "K" , "\u064E"=> "a" , "\u064F"=> "u" ,
"\u0650"=> "i" , "\u0651"=> "~" , "\u0652"=> "o" , "\u0670"=> "`" ,"\u0671"=> "{" , "\u067E"=> "P" ,
"\u0686"=> "J" , "\u06A4"=> "V" , "\u06AF"=> "G" , "\u0698"=> "R" , "\u060C" => "," ,"\u061B" => ";",
"\u061F" => "?" , "\u0640" => ""   }
VOWEL_REMOVER =

Not suitable for morphological analysis : remove all vowels/diacritics, i.e. undo the job !

Regexp.compile("[FNKaui~o]")
STRIPER = 
Regexp.compile("[`\\{]")

Class Method Summary collapse

Class Method Details

.translate(word) ⇒ Object

  • Translate : Transilerate the arabic word to Roman lettered Word

  • word

    Word String To be processed

  • @return transilerated word



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# File 'lib/raramorph/arabic_latin_translator.rb', line 27

def self.translate(word)
  result = ""
  word.gsub!(VOWEL_REMOVER , "")
  word.gsub!(STRIPER , "")
  word.force_encoding "UTF-8"
  word.each_char{|char|
   result+= TABLE[char] ? TABLE[char] : char
  }   
  result
end