| 3 | There are three different tasks: |
| 4 | * the normalization of existing latin transliterations of arabic (in the _translit fields in the database) for searching |
| 5 | * the normalization of arabic script for searching |
| 6 | * the romanization of arabic starting from arabic script into one or more latin transliteration forms |
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| 8 | === Normalization of latin transliterations === |
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| 10 | The search in the existing _translit fields in the database by ignoring different versions of the same character with or without diacritics requires a normalization of all these characters into the base form. |
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| 12 | The normalized form of all transliterated text is saved in the database. When searching the search input is normalized and compared to all normalized text in the database. |
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| 14 | [[normalize_arabic_translit|Description of the algorithm]] |
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| 18 | old: |