On 7/25/09, Dave Angel <da...@ieee.org> wrote: > Emad Nawfal (9E'/ FHAD) wrote: >> Hi Tutors, >> I have a bunch of text files that have many occurrences like the following >> which I believe, given the context, are numbers: >> >> ١٨٧٢ >> >> ٥٧ >> >> ٢٠٠٨ >> >> etc. >> >> So, can somebody please explain what kind of numbers these are, and how I >> can get the original numbers back. The files are in Arabic and were >> downloaded from an Arabic website. >> I'm running python2.6 on Ubuntu 9.04 >> >> > Those are standard html encodings for some Unicode characters. Skipper > has identified one of them as the digit '1' written in Arabic. I > presume the others will also be recognizable to you, since you > apparently know Arabic. The following text should be copied to a flie > with extension .html Then you run that in a browser, to see the > characters. > > DaveA > > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//Dtd html 3.2//EN"> > > <HTML> > <HEAD> > <TITLE>Test Arabic Characters</TITLE> > </HEAD> > <BODY> > <p> > Table of characters <br> > 1632 - ٠<br> > 1633 - ١<br> > 1634 - ٢<br> > 1635 - ٣<br> > 1636 - ٤<br> > 1637 - ٥<br> > 1638 - ٦<br> > 1639 - ٧<br> > 1640 - ٨<br> > 1641 - ٩<br> > </p> > </BODY> > </HTML> > >
Thank you very much Skipper and Dave. Your replies have been very useful. -- لا أعرف مظلوما تواطأ الناس علي هضمه ولا زهدوا في إنصافه كالحقيقة.....محمد الغزالي "No victim has ever been more repressed and alienated than the truth" Emad Soliman Nawfal Indiana University, Bloomington -------------------------------------------------------- _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
