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Arabic text guides
Each guide explains one problem people run into with Arabic text: why it happens, how to fix it step by step, and when a fix is the wrong choice. The examples come from the site’s own tools, and facts about other software come from the vendors’ official help pages.
Display and copying
Reversed Arabic · Invisible textArabic text reversed or disconnected in Photoshop and other appsWhy Arabic letters show up backwards and unjoined in Photoshop, Illustrator, After Effects or Unity, how to turn on Arabic support, and when to pre-shape the text.Reversed Arabic · CleanerArabic text copied from a PDF is reversed or garbled: how to fix itCopied Arabic from a PDF and got backwards words, unjoined letters or gibberish? Identify the cause from what you pasted, repair it in your browser, or know when you need OCR.Invisible text · CleanerHidden characters in Arabic text: how to find and remove themPunctuation on the wrong side, a space that won't delete, names that won't match? Find hidden direction marks and zero-width characters, and remove only the harmful ones.
Cleaning and normalising
Cleaner · LinesClean up Arabic text copied from WhatsApp, Word, PDFs and the webPasted Arabic full of double spaces, broken lines, tatweel and hidden marks? Follow this order in the Cleaner, change one thing at a time and check before you copy.Cleaner · CompareHow to remove Arabic diacritics (tashkeel) from textStrip Arabic harakat, tanween, shadda and sukun in your browser, see what stays (hamza, madda, Quranic marks) and learn when removing marks changes the meaning.Cleaner · CompareNormalize Arabic text for search and matchingWhy searching احمد misses أحمد and مدرسه misses مدرسة. Normalize alef, taa marbuta, alef maqsura and diacritics in a search copy and keep the original spelling.Cleaner · CharactersPersian ی and ک in Arabic text: why search misses them«علی» looks like «علي» but search won’t match it. See how Persian yeh, keheh and digits differ from Arabic, how to detect and convert them, and when not to.
Numbers
Cleaner · World numeralsArabic-Indic, Persian and Western digits: convert ١٢٣ to 123Why forms, Excel and IBAN checks reject ١٢٣ but accept 123, what Arabic-Indic and Persian digits are, and how to convert them without changing links or values.Number wordsTafqit: writing amounts in Arabic words for invoices and chequesSpell out amounts in Arabic words with correct grammar: gender agreement, duals, case endings, fils and halalas. Worked examples for invoices, cheques and contracts.
Typing and input
Keyboard · Arabic keysWrong keyboard layout? Fix Arabic and English gibberishGot hgsghl ugd;l instead of السلام عليكم? Convert text typed on the wrong layout back to Arabic or English, learn the limits, and switch layouts on any device.TransliterateArabizi and Franco-Arabic to Arabic script: what 3, 7 and 5 meanWhat do 2, 3, 5 and 7 mean in Arabizi? Convert Franco-Arabic to Arabic script and back, pick a vowel option, see why results need editing, and when to use Buckwalter.
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