Building a Phonetic Arabic Keyboard: A Journey of Challenges and Clever Solutions
2025-09-06
This post details the author's journey in creating a phonetic Arabic keyboard. Challenges arose from Arabic's right-to-left writing system and cursive script. UTF-8 and Zero-Width Joiners helped overcome some hurdles. The author ingeniously mapped the 28 Arabic letters, plus Hamza and diacritics, to English keys, addressing similar-sounding letters and unique characters. The resulting web component is open-source, complete with code and instructions for easy integration.
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