Stemming "فاطفالهم"

[LeviticusMB]

First of all, I do not speak any Arabic whatsoever, but we're using Snowball in one of our products and we're now adding support for Arabic.

According to the README (and Google Translate seems to agree with this), the stem of "فاطفالهم" should be "اطفال". However, both our code, after linking the current master of this project, and http://arabicstemmer.com/ stems this word as "فاطفال".

Is this a bug or am I doing something wrong?

[assem-ch]

Yes, something is wrong, it should be اطفال, we ll investigate it , thanks

[LeviticusMB]

Any news?

[assem-ch]

@LeviticusMB Sorry for being late to reply, It is fixed now to give the same as in the example, though فاطفالهم is a wrong writing for فأطفالهم (Alef instead of Alef-Hamza), so I will think if we need to consider common typos in the stemmer or not.