Remove Arabic diacritics & other things for searching

arabicdiacriticsremove.js

// https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Guide/Regular_Expressions/Unicode_Property_Escapes
// https://unicode.org/reports/tr18/#General_Category_Property
// https://unicode.org/reports/tr24/#Script
// https://tc39.es/ecma262/multipage/text-processing.html#table-nonbinary-unicode-properties
// \p{Symbol} also includes pipe symbol i.e | etc

let str = "ٱلَّذِينَ يُؤۡمِنُونَ بِٱلۡغَيۡبِ وَيُقِيمُونَ ٱلصَّلَوٰةَ وَمِمَّا رَزَقۡنَٰهُمۡ يُنفِقُونَ"
str = str.normalize("NFD").replace(/\p{Diacritic}|\p{Mark}|\p{Extender}|\p{Bidi_Control}/gu, "").replaceAll('ٱ','ا')
console.log(str)