jQuery input number convert Persian/Arabic numbers to English numbers

Question

I have a input field of type number. I want to accept Persian/Arabic numbers as well in this field. I wanted to convert these numbers to English using jQuery, but it seems I can't retrieve these values.

jQuery('input[type="number"]').on('input', function() {
    console.log(jQuery(this).val());
});

For non-English numbers val() is empty string. Is there any way to get the value of a number input field, if the value is not a English number?

UPDATE:

Persian numbers: ۰ ۱ ۲ ۳ ۴ ۵ ۶ ۷ ۸ ۹

English numbers: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

UPDATE2:

Looks like Firefox returns the correct val but Chrome returns empty string. So my question is applicable on Google Chrome.

Answer 1

you can use this function:

function toEnglishNumber(strNum) {
        var pn = ["۰", "۱", "۲", "۳", "۴", "۵", "۶", "۷", "۸", "۹"];
        var en = ["0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9"];
        var an = ["٠", "١", "٢", "٣", "٤", "٥", "٦", "٧", "٨", "٩"];
        var cache = strNum;
        for (var i = 0; i < 10; i++) {
            var regex_fa = new RegExp(pn[i], 'g');
            var regex_ar = new RegExp(an[i], 'g');
            cache = cache.replace(regex_fa, en[i]);
            cache = cache.replace(regex_ar, en[i]);
        }
        return cache;
    }