Golang : Simple Jawi(Yawi) to Rumi(Latin/Romanize) converter




A simple example on how to use Golang's map to build a Jawi(Malays in Arabic script) to Rumi translation dictionary. My knowledge of Jawi became lost over the years(I studied it back in primary 1 and 2) and created this tool to help me in regaining back my ability to read and write Jawi.

Please download the translation file at [https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mohdzamrimurah/rumi-jawi/master/rumi-jawi-unicode.txt][1] before running this program. If you are unable to download the dictionary file from the link above, try navigating to the most recent dictionary at [https://github.com/mohdzamrimurah/rumi-jawi][2]

Here you go!


 package main

 import (
  "fmt"
  "io/ioutil"
  "os"
  "strings"
 )

 func main() {

  // one map for each dictionary
  jawiRumi := map[string]string{}
  rumiJawi := map[string]string{}

  fileName := "rumi-jawi-unicode.txt"
  //fileName := "rumi-jawi-unicode-3-1-2019.txt"

  fileBytes, err := ioutil.ReadFile(fileName)

  if err != nil {
 fmt.Println(err)
 os.Exit(1)
  }

  lines := strings.Split(string(fileBytes), "\n")

  // build the dictionaries
  for _, line := range lines {

 if len(line) > 0 {
 split := strings.Split(line, ",")
 rumi := split[0]
 jawi := split[1]

 jawiRumi[jawi] = rumi
 rumiJawi[rumi] = jawi
 }
  }

  //to translate

  //jawi := "کيت مستي جادي ماءنسي يڠ برويباوا "
  //jawi := "سابن هاري کيت مستي جاݢ ڤرتوتورن دان تيڠکت لاکو کيت "
  jawi := "بلاجر جاوي تق روݢي بيلا کنا ماکي مماکي بوليهله فهم"

  fmt.Println("Translating : [", jawi, "]")

  //get rid of empty spaces in front and back
  jawi = strings.TrimPrefix(jawi, " ")
  jawi = strings.TrimSuffix(jawi, " ")

  //chunk them
  jawiWords := strings.Split(jawi, " ")

  for _, word := range jawiWords {
 fmt.Println(jawiRumi[string(word)] + " >> " + word)
  }

  fmt.Println(jawi)

  rumi := ""
  for _, word := range jawiWords {
 rumi = rumi + " " + jawiRumi[string(word)]
  }

  fmt.Println(rumi)

  //translate rumi(latin/romanized) back to Jawi/Yawi

  // get rid of empty spaces in front and back
  rumi = strings.TrimPrefix(rumi, " ")
  rumi = strings.TrimSuffix(rumi, " ")
  rumiWords := strings.Split(rumi, " ")

  for _, word := range rumiWords {
 fmt.Println(rumiJawi[word] + " >> " + string(word))
  }
 }

 // jawi source :
 // http://juong-journal.blogspot.com/2014/07/convert-tulisan-rumi-ke-jawi-secara.html

Output:

Translating : [ حکايت مروڠ مها وڠسا ]

hikayat >> حکايت

merong >> مروڠ

maha >> مها

wangsa >> وڠسا

حکايت مروڠ مها وڠسا

hikayat merong maha wangsa

حکايت >> hikayat

مروڠ >> merong

مها >> maha

وڠسا >> wangsa

  See also : Golang : Gargish-English language translator





By Adam Ng

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