Transliterate arabic characters into english – WordPress

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1. you are using str_split fro spliting the arabic multi byte charactors.
   you need to use a multibyte function.

   eg:

   function multibyte_str_split($string) {
       $strlen = mb_strlen($string);
       while ($strlen) {
           $array[] = mb_substr($string, 0, 1, "UTF-8");
           $string = mb_substr($string, 1, $strlen, "UTF-8");
           $strlen = mb_strlen($string);
       }
       return $array;
   }
   
   
   $arb = <<<EOD
               <>][/:"~}{,.ذضصثقفغعهخحجدشسيبلاتنمكطئءؤرىةوزظًٌَُّإ÷×؛ٍِأـ،ْآ’؟
   EOD;
   
   $ar = multibye_str_split($arb);
   

   EDIT:
   put this function in the ‘functions.php’ file in your theme.

   function arb2en_title($post=0)
   {
     $text = get_the_title($post);
   
   
   $arb_en_map=array ( 
   '\xd8\xa1' => ''', '\xd8\xa2' => '|', '\xd8\xa3' => '>',
   '\xd8\xa4' => '&', '\xd8\xa5' => '<', '\xd8\xa6' => '}',
   '\xd8\xa7' => 'A', '\xd8\xa8' => 'b', '\xd8\xa9' => 'p',
   '\xd8\xaa' => 't', '\xd8\xab' => 'v', '\xd8\xac' => 'j',
   '\xd8\xad' => 'H', '\xd8\xae' => 'x', '\xd8\xaf' => 'd',
   '\xd8\xb0' => '*', '\xd8\xb1' => 'r', '\xd8\xb2' => 'z',
   '\xd8\xb3' => 's', '\xd8\xb4' => '$', '\xd8\xb5' => 'S',
   '\xd8\xb6' => 'D', '\xd8\xb7' => 'T', '\xd8\xb8' => 'Z',
   '\xd8\xb9' => 'E', '\xd8\xba' => 'g', '\xd9\x80' => '_',
   '\xd9\x81' => 'f', '\xd9\x82' => 'q', '\xd9\x83' => 'k',
   '\xd9\x84' => 'l', '\xd9\x85' => 'm', '\xd9\x86' => 'n',
   '\xd9\x87' => 'h', '\xd9\x88' => 'w', '\xd9\x89' => 'Y',
   '\xd9\x8a' => 'y', '\xd9\x8b' => 'F', '\xd9\x8c' => 'N',
   '\xd9\x8d' => 'K', '\xd9\x8e' => 'a', '\xd9\x8f' => 'u',
   '\xd9\x90' => 'i', '\xd9\x91' => '~', '\xd9\x92' => 'o',
   '\xd9\xb0' => '`', '\xd9\xb1' => '{', 
           );
   
   foreach($arb_en_map as $key=>$value)
   {
       $text=preg_replace("/$key/",$value,$text);
   }
   return  htmlentities($text);
   
   }
   

   in your theme, you can get the title in english by calling the
   arb2en_title() function.

   eg:

   echo arb2en_title();
   

   Note: i have used the buckwalter transliteration chart.

   http://www.ldc.upenn.edu/myl/morph/buckwalter.html

   EDIT::

   for arbic key board mapping like in this link:
   http://elfnoon.com/demo/maps.html

   replace the arb_en_map array with this:

   $arb_en_map=array(
               'د'=>']',
              'ج'=>'[',
              'Ø­'=>'p',
              'Ø®'=>'o',
              'ه'=>'i',
              'ع'=>'u',
              'غ'=>'y',
              'ف'=>'t',
              'ق'=>'r',
              'Ø«'=>'e',
              'ص'=>'w',
              'ض'=>'q',
              'Ø´'=>'a',
              'س'=>'s',
              'ي'=>'d',
              'ب'=>'f',
              'ل'=>'g',
              'ا'=>'h',
              'ت'=>'j',
              'ن'=>'k',
              'م'=>'l',
              'ك'=>';',
              'Ø·'=>''',
              'ظ'=>'/',
              'ز'=>'.',
              'و'=>',',
              'Ø©'=>'m',
              'ى'=>'n',
              'ل'=>'b',
              'ر'=>'v',
              'ؤ'=>'c',
              'Ø¡'=>'x',
              'ئ'=>'z',
              'Ø¥'=>'Y',
              'لإ'=>'T',
              'لأ'=>'G',
              'Ø£'=>'H',
              'لآ'=>'B',
              'Ø¢'=>'N'
   );
   

   or you can use the hex mapping array, both are same:

   $arb_en_map=array ( 
    '\xd8\xaf' => ']', '\xd8\xac' => '[', '\xd8\xad' => 'p',
    '\xd8\xae' => 'o', '\xd9\x87' => 'i', '\xd8\xb9' => 'u',
    '\xd8\xba' => 'y', '\xd9\x81' => 't', '\xd9\x82' => 'r',
    '\xd8\xab' => 'e', '\xd8\xb5' => 'w', '\xd8\xb6' => 'q',
    '\xd8\xb4' => 'a', '\xd8\xb3' => 's', '\xd9\x8a' => 'd',
    '\xd8\xa8' => 'f', '\xd9\x84' => 'B', '\xd8\xa7' => 'h',
    '\xd8\xaa' => 'j', '\xd9\x86' => 'k', '\xd9\x85' => 'l',
    '\xd9\x83' => ';', '\xd8\xb7' => ''', '\xd8\xb8' => '/',
    '\xd8\xb2' => '.', '\xd9\x88' => ',', '\xd8\xa9' => 'm', 
    '\xd9\x89' => 'n', '\xd8\xb1' => 'v', '\xd8\xa4' => 'c', 
    '\xd8\xa1' => 'x', '\xd8\xa6' => 'z', '\xd8\xa5' => 'Y',
    '\xd8\xa3' => 'H', '\xd8\xa2' => 'N',
    );
   

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