Alphabetize Arabic and Japanese text that is in Unicode?

Question

Does anyone have any code for alphabetizing Arabic and Japanese text that is in Unicode? If the code was in ruby that would be great.

Answer 1

I don't know Ruby, but python has a function, ord() that translates a unicode special character to its unicode code point. For example,

>>> a = u'ل'
>>> ord(a)
0: 1604
>>> b = u'ع'
>>> ord(b)
1: 1593

Look for something like that in Ruby. I assume that the Arabic symbols are listed in unicode in alphabetic order.