Regex Persian Language

Regex for Persian (Farsi) Characters

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Collection of Regex for validating, filtering, sanitizing and finding Persian strings

Introduction

Because of historical matters, many Arabic characters get a way into Persian language and transformed it, In these years many efforts have been made by governmental and non-governmental organizations to revivification of authority of Persian language and this is one of them (really?!).

✴️ Notes

• Persian alphabet consists of 33 characters (including hamzah) and 3 vowel marks.

• The important part of this effort, is codepoints range, so you can create your own regex for validating, filtering and finding strings, just put the desired range in it.
  for example when string should only contains persian words and spaces just concat space codepoints and persian alpha codepoints in the final Regex and so on.

• Characters in table are sorted by codepoints

• Don’t put Regex in multiline because space will be included.

• See tests after reading.

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🔲 Codepoints Range

🔳 Space

This ranges include all kind of space, specially ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER that use as half space and massively are using in Persian texts and NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE that is simmilar to previous character.

Keyabord shortcuts

ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER

• Shift + B in Persian keyboard layout in Linux
• Ctrl + Shift + 2 in Persian keyboard layout in Windows

NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE

• Shift + Space in Persian keyboard layout in Linux

🔸 Allowed characters

U+0020
U+2000-U+200F
U+2028-U+202F

code point	character	hex	name
U+0020		20	SPACE
U+2000		e2 80 80	EN QUAD
U+2001		e2 80 81	EM QUAD
U+2002		e2 80 82	EN SPACE
U+2003		e2 80 83	EM SPACE
U+2004		e2 80 84	THREE-PER-EM SPACE
U+2005		e2 80 85	FOUR-PER-EM SPACE
U+2006		e2 80 86	SIX-PER-EM SPACE
U+2007		e2 80 87	FIGURE SPACE
U+2008		e2 80 88	PUNCTUATION SPACE
U+2009		e2 80 89	THIN SPACE
U+200A		e2 80 8a	HAIR SPACE
U+200B ​		e2 80 8b	ZERO WIDTH SPACE
U+200C ‌		e2 80 8c	ZERO WIDTH NON-JOINER
U+200D ‍		e2 80 8d	ZERO WIDTH JOINER
U+200E ‎		e2 80 8e	LEFT-TO-RIGHT MARK
U+200F ‏		e2 80 8f	RIGHT-TO-LEFT MARK
U+2028		e2 80 a8	LINE SEPARATOR
U+2029		e2 80 a9	PARAGRAPH SEPARATOR
U+202A ‪		e2 80 aa	LEFT-TO-RIGHT EMBEDDING
U+202B ‫		e2 80 ab	RIGHT-TO-LEFT EMBEDDING
U+202C ‬		e2 80 ac	POP DIRECTIONAL FORMATTING
U+202D ‭		e2 80 ad	LEFT-TO-RIGHT OVERRIDE
U+202E ‮		e2 80 ae	RIGHT-TO-LEFT OVERRIDE
U+202F		e2 80 af	NARROW NO-BREAK SPACE

🔸 Implemention

# python
space_codepoints ='\u0020\u2000-\u200F\u2028-\u202F'

// php
$space_codepoints = '\x{0020}\x{2000}-\x{200F}\x{2028}-\x{202F}';

// javascript
var space_codepoints ='\u0020\u2000-\u200F\u2028-\u202F';

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🔳 Persian alphabet

🔸 Allowed characters

U+0621-U+0628
U+062A-U+063A
U+0641-U+0642
U+0644-U+0648
U+064E-U+0651
U+0655
U+067E
U+0686
U+0698
U+06A9-U+06AF
U+06BE
U+06CC

code point	character	hex	name
U+0621	ء	d8 a1	ARABIC LETTER HAMZA
U+0622	آ	d8 a2	ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH MADDA ABOVE
U+0623	أ	d8 a3	ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA ABOVE
U+0624	ؤ	d8 a4	ARABIC LETTER WAW WITH HAMZA ABOVE
U+0625	إ	d8 a5	ARABIC LETTER ALEF WITH HAMZA BELOW
U+0626	ئ	d8 a6	ARABIC LETTER YEH WITH HAMZA ABOVE
U+0627	ا	d8 a7	ARABIC LETTER ALEF
U+0628	ب	d8 a8	ARABIC LETTER BEH
U+062A	ت	d8 aa	ARABIC LETTER TEH
U+062B	ث	d8 ab	ARABIC LETTER THEH
U+062C	ج	d8 ac	ARABIC LETTER JEEM
U+062D	ح	d8 ad	ARABIC LETTER HAH
U+062E	خ	d8 ae	ARABIC LETTER KHAH
U+062F	د	d8 af	ARABIC LETTER DAL
U+0630	ذ	d8 b0	ARABIC LETTER THAL
U+0631	ر	d8 b1	ARABIC LETTER REH
U+0632	ز	d8 b2	ARABIC LETTER ZAIN
U+0633	س	d8 b3	ARABIC LETTER SEEN
U+0634	ش	d8 b4	ARABIC LETTER SHEEN
U+0635	ص	d8 b5	ARABIC LETTER SAD
U+0636	ض	d8 b6	ARABIC LETTER DAD
U+0637	ط	d8 b7	ARABIC LETTER TAH
U+0638	ظ	d8 b8	ARABIC LETTER ZAH
U+0639	ع	d8 b9	ARABIC LETTER AIN
U+063A	غ	d8 ba	ARABIC LETTER GHAIN
U+0641	ف	d9 81	ARABIC LETTER FEH
U+0642	ق	d9 82	ARABIC LETTER QAF
U+0644	ل	d9 84	ARABIC LETTER LAM
U+0645	م	d9 85	ARABIC LETTER MEEM
U+0646	ن	d9 86	ARABIC LETTER NOON
U+0647	ه	d9 87	ARABIC LETTER HEH
U+0648	و	d9 88	ARABIC LETTER WAW
U+064E	َ	d9 8e	ARABIC FATHA
U+064F	ُ	d9 8f	ARABIC DAMMA
U+0650	ِ	d9 90	ARABIC KASRA
U+0651	ّ	d9 91	ARABIC SHADDA
U+0655	ٕ	d9 95	ARABIC HAMZA BELOW
U+067E	پ	d9 be	ARABIC LETTER PEH
U+0686	چ	da 86	ARABIC LETTER TCHEH
U+0698	ژ	da 98	ARABIC LETTER JEH
U+06A9	ک	da a9	ARABIC LETTER KEHEH
U+06AF	گ	da af	ARABIC LETTER GAF
U+06BE	ھ	da be	ARABIC LETTER HEH DOACHASHMEE
U+06CC	ی	db 8c	ARABIC LETTER FARSI YEH

🔸 Implemention

# python
persian_alpha_codepoints = '\u0621-\u0628\u062A-\u063A\u0641-\u0642\u0644-\u0648\u064E-\u0651\u0655\u067E\u0686\u0698\u06A9\u06AF\u06BE\u06CC'

// php
$persian_alpha_codepoints = '\x{0621}-\x{0628}\x{062A}-\x{063A}\x{0641}-\x{0642}\x{0644}-\x{0648}\x{064E}-\x{0651}\x{0655}\x{067E}\x{0686}\x{0698}\x{06A9}\x{06AF}\x{06BE}\x{06CC}';

// javascript
var persian_alpha_codepoints = '\u0621-\u0628\u062A-\u063A\u0641-\u0642\u0644-\u0648\u064E-\u0651\u0655\u067E\u0686\u0698\u06A9\u06AF\u06BE\u06CC';

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🔳 Persian numbers

🔸 Allowed characters

U+06F0-U+06F9

code point	character	hex	name
U+06F0	۰	db b0	EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO
U+06F1	۱	db b1	EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ONE
U+06F2	۲	db b2	EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO
U+06F3	۳	db b3	EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE
U+06F4	۴	db b4	EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR
U+06F5	۵	db b5	EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FIVE
U+06F6	۶	db b6	EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT SIX
U+06F7	۷	db b7	EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT SEVEN
U+06F8	۸	db b8	EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT EIGHT
U+06F9	۹	db b9	EXTENDED ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT NINE

🔸 Implemention

# python
persian_num_codepoints = '\u06F0-\u06F9'

// php
$persian_num_codepoints = '\x{06F0}-\x{06F9}';

// javascript
var persian_num_codepoints = '\u06F0-\u06F9';

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🔳 Persian(Arabic) punctuation marks

🔸 Allowed characters

U+060C
U+061B
U+061F
U+0640
U+066A
U+066B
U+066C

code point	character	hex	name
U+060C	،	d8 8c	ARABIC COMMA
U+061B	؛	d8 9b	ARABIC SEMICOLON
U+061F	؟	d8 9f	ARABIC QUESTION MARK
U+0640	ـ	d9 80	ARABIC TATWEEL
U+066A	٪	d9 aa	ARABIC PERCENT SIGN
U+066B	٫	d9 ab	ARABIC DECIMAL SEPARATOR
U+066C	٬	d9 ac	ARABIC THOUSANDS SEPARATOR

✴️ for more common punctutation marks like ” | « | » | ?| ; | : | ...
see general punctuation page in unicode

# python
punctuation_marks_codepoints = '\u060C\u061B\u061F\u0640\u066A\u066B\u066C'

// php
$punctuation_marks_codepoints = '\x{060C}\x{061B}\x{061F}\x{0640}\x{066A}\x{066B}\x{066C}';

// javascript
var punctuation_marks_codepoints = '\u060C\u061B\u061F\u0640\u066A\u066B\u066C';

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🔳 Most used Arabic characters in Persian texts.

🔸 Allowed characters

U+0629
U+0643
U+0649-U+064B
U+064D
U+06D5

code point	character	hex	name
U+0629	ة	d8 a9	ARABIC LETTER TEH MARBUTA
U+0643	ك	d9 83	ARABIC LETTER KAF
U+0649	ى	d9 89	ARABIC LETTER ALEF MAKSURA
U+064A	ي	d9 8a	ARABIC LETTER YEH
U+064B	ً	d9 8b	ARABIC FATHATAN
U+064D	ٍ	d9 8d	ARABIC KASRATAN
U+06D5	ە	db 95	ARABIC LETTER AE

🔸 Implemention

# python
additional_arabic_characters_codepoints = '\u0629\u0643\u0649-\u064B\u064D\u06D5'

// php
$additional_arabic_characters_codepoints ='\x{0629}\x{0643}\x{0649}-\x{064B}\x{064D}\x{06D5}';

// javascript
var additional_arabic_characters_codepoints = '\u0629\u0643\u0649-\u064B\u064D\u06D5';

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🔳 Arabic numbers

🔸 Allowed characters

U+0660-U+0669

code point	character	hex	name
U+0660	٠	d9 a0	ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ZERO
U+0661	١	d9 a1	ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT ONE
U+0662	٢	d9 a2	ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT TWO
U+0663	٣	d9 a3	ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT THREE
U+0664	٤	d9 a4	ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FOUR
U+0665	٥	d9 a5	ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT FIVE
U+0666	٦	d9 a6	ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT SIX
U+0667	٧	d9 a7	ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT SEVEN
U+0668	٨	d9 a8	ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT EIGHT
U+0669	٩	d9 a9	ARABIC-INDIC DIGIT NINE

🔸 Implemention

# python
arabic_numbers_codepoints = '\u0660-\u0669'

// php
$arabic_numbers_codepoints ='\x{0660}-\x{0669}';

// javascript
var arabic_numbers_codepoints = '\u0660-\u0669';

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