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wikt>Santi2222: Use , word-finally instead of ,

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Use <aw>, <ay> word-finally instead of <au>, <ai>

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local export = {}

local U = require("Module:string/char")
local rsub = mw.ustring.gsub
local unpack = unpack or table.unpack -- Lua 5.2 compatibility
-- apply rsub() repeatedly until no change
local function rsub_repeatedly(term, foo, bar)
while true do
local new_term = rsub(term, foo, bar)
if new_term == term then
return term
end
term = new_term
end
end

local rbasa_below = U(0x737)
local pthaha_below = U(0x731)
local rbasa = U(0x736)
local zqapha = U(0x733)
local pthaha = U(0x730)
local vowel_diacritics_capture = "([" .. rbasa_below .. pthaha_below .. rbasa .. zqapha .. pthaha .. "])"

-- we declare consonants representing vowels (matres lectionis) as constants to mitigate differences in how mixing
-- right-to-left and left-to-right characters in the same line appears in an IDE vs wiktionary. Since matres is used in
-- concatenation via the .. operator, "ܘ" .. "ܐ" on wiktionary would render as "ܐ" .. "ܘ" in an IDE
local alaph = U(0x710)
local waw = U(0x718)
local yudh = U(0x71D)

local combining_diaeresis = U(0x308)
local combining_tilde_below = U(0x330)
local qushshaya = U(0x741)
local rukkakha = U(0x742)

local tt_transpose_punc = {
-- left/right single/double quotes
["“"] = "”",
["”"] = "“",
["‘"] = "’",
["’"] = "‘",
["؟"] = "?", -- question mark
["«"] = '“', -- quotation mark
["»"] = '”', -- quotation mark
["،"] = ",", -- comma
["؛"] = ";", -- semicolon
-- skewed colons from https://r12a.github.io/scripts/syrc/tru.html#phrase
["܇"] = ',',
["܆"] = ';'
}

local tt_transpose_punc_keys = ''
for key, _ in pairs(tt_transpose_punc) do tt_transpose_punc_keys = tt_transpose_punc_keys .. key end

local fix = {
{ vowel_diacritics_capture .. qushshaya, qushshaya .. "%1" },
{ vowel_diacritics_capture .. rukkakha, rukkakha .. "%1" },
{ vowel_diacritics_capture .. combining_tilde_below, combining_tilde_below .. "%1" },
-- partition punctuation marks so "starts with" and "ends with" substitutions work
{"([".. tt_transpose_punc_keys .. "()!.:\"'])", "#%1#"},
}

local tt = {
["ܦ"] = "f", ["ܒ"] = "b", ["ܬ"] = "t", ["ܛ"] = "ṭ", ["ܕ"] = "d", ["ܟ"] = "k",
["ܓ"] = "g", ["ܩ"] = "q", ["ܔ"] = "j", ["ܣ"] = "s", ["ܨ"] = "ṣ", ["ܙ"] = "z",
["ܫ"] = "š", ["ܚ"] = "ḥ", ["ܥ"] = "c", ["ܗ"] = "h", ["ܡ"] = "m", ["ܢ"] = "n",
["ܪ"] = "r", ["ܠ"] = "l",
}

local tt_next = {
[waw] = "w",
[yudh] = "y",

[rbasa_below] = "ë",
[pthaha_below] = "ä",
[rbasa] = "e",
[zqapha] = "o",
[pthaha] = "a",
}

local consonants = "fbtṭdkgqjsṣzščḥchmnrlvžpvṯḏxġ" .. yudh .. waw
local consonants_group = "([" .. consonants .. "])"

local special_cases = {
-- { matching_aii_text, latin_substitution }
--
-- the # symbol pads the start and end of a word, consider the follow examples for matching_aii_text
-- #float# only float matches
-- #float words starting with float like float or floats match
-- float# words ending with float like float or afloat match
-- float words containing float like float, floats, afloat and refloats match
{"ܡܳܪܝ#", "mor#"},
}

function export.tr(text, lang, sc)

text = rsub(text, " | ", "# | #")
text = "##" .. rsub(text, " ", "# #") .. "##"
text = rsub(text, "ـ", "")
text = rsub(text, combining_diaeresis, "")
for _, sub in ipairs(fix) do text = rsub(text, unpack(sub)) end

-- Special cases
for _, sub in ipairs(special_cases) do text = rsub(text, unpack(sub)) end

text = rsub(text, "ܫ" .. combining_tilde_below, "č")
text = rsub(text, "ܙ" .. combining_tilde_below, "ž")

text = rsub(text, "ܦ" .. qushshaya, "p")

text = rsub(text, "ܒ" .. rukkakha, "v")
text = rsub(text, "ܬ" .. rukkakha, "ṯ")
text = rsub(text, "ܕ" .. rukkakha, "ḏ")
text = rsub(text, "ܟ" .. rukkakha, "x")
text = rsub(text, "ܓ" .. rukkakha, "ġ")

text = rsub(text, ".", tt_transpose_punc)
text = rsub(text, ".", tt)

text = rsub_repeatedly(text, consonants_group .. waw .. consonants_group, "%1u%2")
text = rsub_repeatedly(text, consonants_group .. yudh .. consonants_group, "%1i%2")
text = rsub(text, "#" .. waw .. consonants_group, "#u%1")
text = rsub(text, "#" .. yudh .. consonants_group, "#i%1") -- this needs a test case

text = rsub(text, alaph .. pthaha .. waw .. "#", "#aw")
text = rsub(text, alaph .. pthaha .. yudh .. "#", "#ay")

text = rsub(text, "#" .. alaph .. waw, "#u")
text = rsub(text, "#" .. alaph .. yudh, "#i")

text = rsub(text, pthaha .. waw .. "#", "aw#") --<ܝܳܬܰܘ> = yotaw, not yotau
text = rsub(text, pthaha .. yudh .. "#", "ay#") --<ܚܙܰܝ> = ḥzay, not ḥzai

text = rsub(text, waw .. "#", "u#")
text = rsub(text, yudh .. "#", "i#")

text = rsub(text, pthaha .. alaph .. "#", "a#")
text = rsub(text, rbasa .. alaph .. "#", "e#")
text = rsub(text, zqapha .. alaph .. "#", "o#")
text = rsub(text, alaph .. "#", "o#")
text = rsub(text, alaph, "")

text = rsub(text, ".", tt_next)

text = rsub(text, "cc", "c")
text = rsub(text, "ḥḥ", "ḥ")
text = rsub(text, "šš", "š")
text = rsub(text, "ṯṯ", "ṯ")
text = rsub(text, "xx", "x")

text = rsub(text, "#", "")

return text
end

return export

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