Devocalize = Strip the diacritics from "Arabic with harakat" is not such a simple Unicode conversion.
i.e. One doesn't just have to remove diacritic characters from the encoded text! Rather to replace individual characters with harakat by characters without them. For an online utility see http://www.harakat.ae/ فِي الْبَدْءِ خَلَقَ اللهُ السَّمَاوَاتِ وَالأَرْضَ، becomes في البدء خلق الله السماوات والأرض، David -- View this message in context: http://sword-dev.350566.n4.nabble.com/testing-for-diacritics-tp4655091p4655183.html Sent from the SWORD Dev mailing list archive at Nabble.com. _______________________________________________ sword-devel mailing list: sword-devel@crosswire.org http://www.crosswire.org/mailman/listinfo/sword-devel Instructions to unsubscribe/change your settings at above page