arabic_search 0.1.2

Arabic-first text normalization and search utilities for Dart & Flutter.

arabic_search 🇪🇬🇸🇦

Arabic-first text normalization and search utilities for Dart & Flutter.
Designed to fix common Arabic search issues like different Alef forms (أ/إ/آ), diacritics (tashkeel), tatweel (ـ), Arabic digits (٠١٢), and more.

If your app supports Arabic search, filtering, or sorting — this package is for you.

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✨ Features

• ✅ Remove Arabic diacritics (التشكيل)
• ✅ Remove tatweel (ـ)
• ✅ Normalize Alef variants: أ / إ / آ / ٱ → ا
• ✅ Normalize Yeh: ى → ي
• ✅ (Search mode) Normalize Teh Marbuta: ة → ه
• ✅ Convert Arabic digits ↔ English digits (٠١٢ ↔ 012)
• ✅ Generate robust search keys for accurate Arabic search
• ✅ Lightweight, fast, and dependency-free (except meta)
• ✅ Pure Dart (works with Flutter & backend Dart)

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🧠 Core idea

Arabic text can be written in many valid forms:

إسلام / اسلام
الإتصالات / الاتصالات
١٢٣ / 123
مُحَمَّد / محمد

This package normalizes all of these into a single consistent form
so search, filtering, and comparisons work correctly.

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🚀 Getting started

Add the package to your project:

dart pub add arabic_search