Arabic Character Set Converter


Khaled Al-Sham'aa
The last step of the Information Retrieval process is to display the found documents to the user. However, some difficulties might occur at that point. English texts are usually written in the ASCII standard. Unlike the English language, many languages have different character sets, and do not have one standard. This plurality of standards causes problems, especially in a web environment.
    Unlike the English language, many languages have different character sets, and do not have one standard.
This class convert a given Arabic string from one Arabic character set to another, those available character sets includes the most popular three: Windows-1256, ISO 8859-6, and UTF-8.