Arabic text

[fasihrana]

Is there something that allows converting a string of individual Arabic characters to the proper joined form of Arabic text?

For example my name written in individual letters is: ف ص ی ح while the joined form is (if you view this in any modern browser): فصیح

[behnam]

Thanks for filing this, @fasihrana.

We have two crates in the plans regarding the Unicode Arabic Cursive Joining algorithm:

• unic-ucd-joining, which provides character properties data used for UACJ,
• unic-joining (or unic-string-joining), to implement the algorithm.

But, should mention that, the output of such algorithm won't be a new string, but a list of joining forms, per character.

I'm guessing what you need is actually to convert the string (plug the output of UACJ algorithm) to (deprecated) Presentation Form code-points. Is that so?

If yes, could you please elaborate on why you need it, so we can see what are the options (and API design) to provide such functionality in UNIC?

[fasihrana]

I don't know enough about the deprecation of Presentation Code Points. Though typing on a keyboard, I doubt you could get any of the joined forms whch is the issue I'm trying to resolve, to convert a keyboard typed word in a joining alphabet to be presented correctly.

What I'm guessing is that once I have the code points for joined alphabets, the presentation will become easier?

[xclud]

@fasihrana This package solves the Problem: https://crates.io/crates/bidi