I finally solved the problem, after ditching the /b argument in
preg_replace It seems that Hebrew letters are not part of a word, so
far as /b is concerned. Here is the code for converting Hebrew final
letters in the middle of a word to normal letters, if anyone ever
needs it:
$text="עברית מבולגנת";
function hebrewNotWordEndSwitch ($from, $to, $text) {
$text=preg_replace('/'.$from.'([א-ת])/u','$2'.$to.'$1',$text);
return $text;
}
do {
$text_before=$text;
$text=hebrewNotWordEndSwitch("ך","כ",$text);
$text=hebrewNotWordEndSwitch("ם","מ",$text);
$text=hebrewNotWordEndSwitch("ן","נ",$text);
$text=hebrewNotWordEndSwitch("ף","פ",$text);
$text=hebrewNotWordEndSwitch("ץ","צ",$text);
} while ( $text_before!=$text );
print $text; // עברית מסודרת!
The do-while is necessary for multiple instances of letters, such as
"אנני" which would start off as "אןןי". Note that there's still the
problem of acronyms with gershiim but that's not a difficult one to
solve.
Dotan Cohen
http://what-is-what.com
http://gibberish.co.il
א-ב-ג-ד-ה-ו-ז-ח-ט-י-ך-כ-ל-ם-מ-ן-נ-ס-ע-ף-פ-ץ-צ-ק-ר-ש-ת
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text.
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