NAME

Encode::Arabic::Franco - Turns Franco-/Chat-Arabic into actual Arabic letters

SYNOPSIS

    use Encode::Arabic::Franco;

    while ($line = <>) {
        print decode 'franco-arabic', $line;   # 'Franco-Arabic' alias 'Arabizy'
    }

    # oneliner
    $ perl -CS -MEncode::Arabic::Franco -pe '$_ = decode "arabizy", $_'

DESCRIPTION

Franco-Arabic, aka Chat Arabic, Arabizy, is a transliteration of Arabic, commonly used on the internet. It restricts itself to the ASCII charset and substitutes numbers for the Arabic characters which have no equivalent in Latin.

Franco-Arabic is not standardized. This module is far from complete.

IMPLEMENTATION

Currently nothing more than a chain of tricks à la:

    $str =~ s/3'/غ/g;
    $str =~ s/7'/خ/g;

GIT REPOSITORY

http://github.com/athreef/Encode-Arabic-Franco

SEE ALSO

Encode, Encode::Encoding, Encode::Arabic,

Wikipedia article on Franco Arabic https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_chat_alphabet

Buckwalter Arabic Morphological Analyzer http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/Catalog/CatalogEntry.jsp?catalogId=LDC2002L49 (Might be employed in future)

AUTHOR

Ahmad Fatoum <athreef@cpan.org>, http://a3f.at

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright (C) 2016 Ahmad Fatoum

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.