Diacritic Search Problem

[ballouta]

Hi

I have arabic text that contains diacritic signs. PHP doesn't find the word if it holds any such sign unless the user writes the signs which rarely happens.

there are around 12 signs.

Note that i do not want to remove these signs from my original text cuz it helps the reader to recognize the meaning.

 

what functions i have to use to exclude these signs from the text BEING searched (stored in my DB)?

 

 

Thanks You

[teynon]

Please paste code so we know how you are searching now, and what are these signs?

[ballouta]

Hi

 

as for search code, i think it is smthg normal you saw before

<?php
$kword=$_POST['search'];
$query = "Select * from mag where catID ='T' AND content LIKE '%$kword%' ";
$result = mysql_query($query);
?>

 

i have no problem with the above code, BUT if the $kword will contain any such sign, the search will not find it.

The signs are (I am not sure if you can see them): َ  ً   ُ   ٌ   ِ   ٍ   ْ   ّ

 

Thank you

[ballouta]

any suggestions please?

[.josh]

did you try some regex to remove them first and then query?