Soundex for Arabic text

pyarabic/soundex.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding=utf-8 -*-
+"""
+soundex
+Utility functions used by to encode homophones to the same representation so that they can be matched despite minor differences in spelling (Method was imitated with the one in phpAr)
+@author: Odai Alghamdi <odai-alghamdi at outlook dot com>
+@author: Odai Alghamdi
+@contact: Odai Alghamdi at outlook dot com
+@copyright: Arabtechies, Arabeyes, Taha Zerrouki
+@license: GPL
+@date:2023/10/31
+@version:0.3
+"""
+
+SOUNDEX_CODE = {
+    u'\u0627' : "0",
+    u'\u0648' : "0",
+    u'\u064a' : "0",
+    u'\u0639' : "0",
+    u'\u062d' : "0",
+    u'\u0647' : "0",
+    u'\u0641' : "1",
+    u'\u0628' : "1",
+    u'\u062e' : "2",
+    u'\u062c' : "2",
+    u'\u0632' : "2",
+    u'\u0633' : "2",
+    u'\u0635' : "2",
+    u'\u0638' : "2",
+    u'\u0642' : "2",
+    u'\u0643' : "2",
+    u'\u063a' : "2",
+    u'\u0634' : "2",
+    u'\u062a' : "3",
+    u'\u062b' : "3",
+    u'\u062f' : "3",
+    u'\u0630' : "3",
+    u'\u0636' : "3",
+    u'\u0637' : "3",
+    u'\u0629' : "3",
+    u'\u0644' : "4",
+    u'\u0645' : "5",
+    u'\u0646' : "5",
+    u'\u0631' : "6",
+}
+
+SOUNDEX_TRANSLATION = {
+    u'\u0627' : "A", # أ
+    u'\u0628' : "B", # ب
+    u'\u062a' : "T", # ت
+    u'\u062b' : "T", # ث
+    u'\u062c' : "J", # ج
+    u'\u062d' : "H", # ح
+    u'\u062e' : "K", # خ
+    u'\u062f' : "D", # د
+    u'\u0630' : "Z", # ذ
+    u'\u0631' : "R", # ر
+    u'\u0632' : "Z", # ز
+    u'\u0633' : "S", # س
+    u'\u0634' : "S", # ش
+    u'\u0635' : "S", # ص
+    u'\u0636' : "D", # ض
+    u'\u0637' : "T", # ط
+    u'\u0638' : "Z", # ظ
+    u'\u0639' : "A", # ع
+    u'\u063a' : "G", # غ
+    u'\u0641' : "F", # ف
+    u'\u0642' : "Q", # ق
+    u'\u0643' : "K", # ك
+    u'\u0644' : "L", # ل
+    u'\u0645' : "M", # م
+    u'\u0646' : "N", # ن
+    u'\u0647' : "H", # ه
+    u'\u0648' : "W", # و
+    u'\u064a' : "Y", # ي
+}
+
+
+
+def soundex_map_code(word: str):
+
+    encoded_word = ''
+    word_length = len(word)
+
+    for i in range(word_length):
+        char = word[i]
+        if char in SOUNDEX_CODE:
+            encoded_word += SOUNDEX_CODE[char]
+        else:
+            encoded_word+= str(0)
+
+    return encoded_word
+
+
+def soundex_trim_rep(word: str):
+
+    last_char  = None
+    clean_word = ""
+    word_length = len(word)
+
+    for i in range(word_length):
+        char = word[i]
+        if char != last_char:
+            clean_word+= char
+        last_char = char
+    return clean_word
+
+
+def soundex(word:str , length:int = 6) -> str:
+
+    soundex = word[0]
+    soundex = SOUNDEX_TRANSLATION[soundex]
+    rest = word[1:]
+
+    encoded_rest = soundex_map_code(rest)
+    clean_encoded_rest = soundex_trim_rep(encoded_rest)
+
+    soundex += clean_encoded_rest
+    soundex = soundex.replace("0","")
+    total_len = len(soundex)
+
+    if total_len > length :
+        soundex = soundex[0:length]
+    else:
+        soundex += "0"*(length - total_len)
+
+    return soundex

tests/test_soundex.py

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+#!/usr/bin/python
+# -*- coding=utf-8 -*-
+import unittest
+import pyarabic.soundex as soundex
+
+class SoundexTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
+    """Tests for `number.py`."""
+
+    def test_soundex(self):
+        self.assertEqual(soundex.soundex("عدي",4),"A300")
+
+
+if __name__ == '__main__':
+    unittest.main()