Arabic alif gets mapped to the empty string

[increpare]

Verified on the website, by entering "ب ا ب" into the box and only the Bet's appearing in the output, not the Alifs (I'd've expected "b a b" but get "b b" as output). I'm not an Arabic speaker, but this seems off to me.

(this library has the more-correct-t-me-seeming behaviour - https://pid.github.io/speakingurl/ )

[alfaproject]

I would also be interested in Arabic transliteration, like for example this gets transliterated to an empty string atm: الازعر جود

[dzcpy]

Hi, thanks for the feadback and sorry for the late reply. Since I don't have any experince in Arabic, I don't really know how to fix this. PRs are welcome!