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Hi.
I am writing a program that reads a list of words from a text file. The words are either english or Arabis. Moreover, some words are punctuation marks like ? or :. The problem I have is with reading Arabic punctuation marks like the Arabic comma � or the Arabic question mark � it seems that when java reads them but internally "translates" to something else. My goal is to delete these symbols from my files, but I cannot get a hold of them because the .equals and .compareTo methods do not seem to identify them.
Any tips on this issue would be greatly appreciated.

Are these characters represented as literals in your source code? If so, it could be the literals in your class files that are corrupted, no the text you're reading in at runtime. If that's the case, you either need to make sure your editor and the compiler are using the correct encoding, or replace the literal characters the source code with Unicode escapes, like "\u060C" or '\u061F'.

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