Arabic Language

Hello,

How can I slugify transform this: السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته

Into this: السلام-عليكم-ورحمة-الله-وبركاته

shall I add the Arabic characters to charmap.json as below ?

{
"أ": "أ",
"ب": "ب",
"ت": "ت",
"ث": "ث",
"ج": "ج",
"ح": "ح"
}

and so on ?

[simov]

I was about to start working on this feature but I noticed that the issue comes from the default remove regex:

/[^\w\s$*_+~.()'"!\-:@]+/g

This regex removes anything that’s not in that list, meaning it preserves only the listed characters. The \w flag stands for the a-zA-Z range, meaning anything except those characters will be removed.

So instead we can update the remove regex to remove only the listed characters:

slugify('السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته', {
  remove: /[$*_+~.()'"!\-:@]+/g
})

And this yields the expected result:

السلام-عليكم-ورحمة-الله-وبركاته

[Trott]

If you’re not trying to get a Latin alphabet result and if you know that your input strings will use a single alphabet, I imagine using String.prototype.replace() might be easier (and have a smaller code footprint) than using slugify().

const regex = /[^\d\u0621-\u064A]+/g;
const string = 'السلام عليكم ورحمة الله وبركاته';

console.log(string.replace(regex, '-')); // 'السلام-عليكم-ورحمة-الله-وبركاته'