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How to implement character folding (stripping Arabic text from diacritics or tashkeel aka text normalization or cleansing) when doing search in Emacs?

This is a follow-up question on a previous one here looking for a solution to this very common task of searching for a string in a text irrespective of the vowel diacritics associated with. Arabic ...
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How to search an Arabic word in text without its diacritics/accents?

In Arabic as with some other languages there is what is called diacritics to enhance pronunciation. There is no convention on how many diacritics should be written for a single word. Some use the ...
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