Mosaheh

Mosaheh, Arabic for corrector, is a ruby lib which can repair UTF-8 Arabic (U+0600 - U+06FF) text that has been mistakenly saved as single-byte latin1 encoding (cp1252).

Usage

# encoding: UTF-8
require 'mosaheh'

encoder = Mosaheh::Encoder.new
encoder.repair 'عربي' # => عربي

When to use

The biggest usecase for it is to repair Arabic data stored in MySql databases with the wrong encoding.

Imagine that you have a MySql database which has the correct collation for a utf-8 data, but the MySql driver was sending the data as latin1 (default in PHPs PDO for example). In this case Mosaheh will be your savior, especially if you have a lot of invaluable data.

LICENSE

(The MIT License)

Copyright (C) 2011 by Maher Sallam

Permission is hereby granted, free of charge, to any person obtaining a copy of this software and associated documentation files (the "Software"), to deal in the Software without restriction, including without limitation the rights to use, copy, modify, merge, publish, distribute, sublicense, and/or sell copies of the Software, and to permit persons to whom the Software is furnished to do so, subject to the following conditions:

The above copyright notice and this permission notice shall be included in all copies or substantial portions of the Software.

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