It is uft8 as well ... It does not change the results but also it gives some errors as well regarding the wide character ... even i change my code to this: 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Lingua::AR::Word::Encode;
use Encode::Arabic; 
open (STOPWORDS, $ARGV[1]) || die "Error opening the stopwords file\n"
+;

$count = 0;
while ($word = <STOPWORDS>)
{
$word=Lingua::AR::Word::encode($word);
    chop($word);
    $stopword[$count] = lc($word);
    $count++;
}
close(STOPWORDS);

open (INFILE , $ARGV[0]) || die "Error opening the input file\n";
while ($line = <INFILE>)
{
$line=Lingua::AR::Word::encode($line);
    chop($line);
    @entry = split(/ /, $line);    
    $i = 0;
    while ($entry[$i])    
    {
        $found = 0;
        $j = 0;
        while (($j<=$count) && ($found==0))
        {
            if (lc($entry[$i]) eq $stopword[$j])
            {
                $found = 1;
            }
            $j++;
        }
        if ($found == 0)
        {
print "$entry[$i]\n ";
        }
        $i++;
    }
}
close(INFILE);

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still does not work , it does not remove my stop words :(

In reply to Re^4: arabic alphabet ... how to deal with? by Anonymous Monk
in thread arabic alphabet ... how to deal with? by Anonymous Monk

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