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#!/usr/bin/python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-
# recode a file from arabic windows(windows-1256) to utf8

import sys, os

def winArabicToUtf8(s, ar2fa=True):
 u = s.decode('windows-1256')
 if ar2fa:
  for item in [
                (u'ي',u'ی'),
                (u'ك',u'ک'),
                (u'ۀ',u'هٔ')]:
   u = u.replace(item[0], item[1])
 return u.encode('utf8')

path = sys.argv[1]
s = file(path).read()
ws = winArabicToUtf8(s)

(name, ext) = os.path.splitext(path)
path2 = name + '-utf8' + ext
file(path2, 'w').write(ws)