Slice string in Go: How can I slice arabic (or other unicode) strings?

First of all, you should really read about strings, bytes and runes in Go.

And here is how you can achieve what you want: Go playground (I was not able to properly paste arabic symbols, but if Chinese works, arabic should work too).

    s := "abcdefghijklmnop" 
    fmt.Println(s[2:9]) 

    s = "维基百科:关于中文维基百科" 
    fmt.Println(string([]rune(s)[2:9]))

The output is:

cdefghi
百科:关于中文