Which Unicode digits does it handle?

Western to Persian maps 0-9 to the Persian Extended Arabic-Indic block U+06F0 to U+06F9. The reverse direction also accepts standard Arabic-Indic digits (U+0660 to U+0669) used in Arabic, converting both to Western 0-9.

Will it change my letters or punctuation?

No. Only digit characters are swapped. Letters, spaces, currency symbols, and punctuation are preserved exactly, so you can safely run whole paragraphs through it.

Why are Persian digits different from Arabic digits?

Persian uses U+06F4, U+06F6, and U+06F7 shapes (۴ ۶ ۷) that differ from the Arabic forms (٤ ٦ ٧). They occupy a separate Unicode block, which is why software often mishandles one or the other.

Is this useful for cleaning database fields?

Yes. Phone numbers, IDs, and prices entered with Persian keyboards often store as U+06F digits, which break numeric parsing. Converting to Western digits makes them sortable and machine-readable.

Does anything get sent to a server?

No. The conversion is pure client-side JavaScript using a character map. Your text never leaves the browser.

Persian Eastern Numeral Converter

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Persian keyboards produce a distinct set of numeral characters that look like normal numbers but live in a separate Unicode block. That mismatch silently breaks search, sorting, and numeric parsing. This converter swaps digits in either direction while leaving everything else intact.

How it works

Two simple character maps drive the conversion. Going from Western to Persian, each ASCII digit 0-9 is replaced with its counterpart in the Persian Extended Arabic-Indic block:

0 → ۰ (U+06F0)   5 → ۵ (U+06F5)
1 → ۱ (U+06F1)   6 → ۶ (U+06F6)
4 → ۴ (U+06F4)   9 → ۹ (U+06F9)

Going the other way, the tool matches any character in the Persian block (U+06F0–U+06F9) or the standard Arabic-Indic block (U+0660–U+0669) and subtracts the block offset to recover the Western digit. Every non-digit character passes through a no-op branch, so formatting is preserved.

Example and notes

Converting Order 12345 — قیمت ۹۸۷ to Western gives Order 12345 — قیمت 987; the Arabic text and the already-Western run are untouched. Note that Persian and Arabic share most digit shapes but differ on four, six, and seven — this tool normalises both to Western, which is the safest target for any system that needs to parse the values as numbers.