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A command line tool that correctly displays Arabic text in terminals.

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Get the binary and add it to your $PATH

wget https://github.com/latiif/ara/releases/download/0.7/ara && chmod +x ara

• 🆕 Undotting of Arabic letters (Rasm).
• 🆕 Revamped command line interface.
• 🆕 Add option to use files as input and/or output in the tool.
• Improved Non-Arabic and punctuation interpolation with Arabic text.
• RTL line wrap and RTL line padding. (Depending on terminal width).
• RTL rendering in terminals. (Right alignment).
• Glyphes and ligatures for لآ,لا,لأ,لإ.
• Full support (including RTL) for Tashkeels (One tashkeel per letter).

When displaying Arabic text in terminals, it is shown incorrectly.

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With Ara, you can send in Arabic text and it will display correctly. In addition, the output can be right-aligned with smart line breaks accomodating to terminal width.

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You can use Ara to undot letters according to Rasm rules.

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Correctly displays Arabic text in terminals
Usage:
 ara [flags]
 ara [command]
Available Commands:
 help Help about any command
 undot Removes the dots of Arabic letters
 version Print the version number of ara
Flags:
 -a, --adjust-right Adjust output text to be rtl (useful when in shell, less so if you want to pipe into a file)
 -h, --help help for ara
 -i, --input string Apply command on the contents of the input file.
 -o, --output string Write output to specified file.
Use "ara [command] --help" for more information about a command.

Unfortunately, not all monospace fonts support Arabic text fully. Here is a list of known fonts with good support for Arabic.

• DejaVu Sans Mono
• Kawkab Mono
• Liberation Mono
• Monospace
• Nimbus Mono L

• Clone the repo.
• Run make.
• Run the produced binary ara.

This tool is based on goarabic under MIT license, with additional functionalities.