I want to to know how can I convert a word into unicode exactly like: http://www.arabunic.free.fr/
can anyone know how to do that using PHP considering that Arabic text may contains ligatures?
thanks
Edit
I'm not sure what is that "unicode" but I need to have the Arabic Character in it's equivalent machine number considering that arabic characters have different contextual forms depending on their position - see here:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_alphabet#Table_of_basic_letters
the same character in different position:
ب | ـب | ـبـ | بـ
I think it must be a way to convert each Arabic character into it's equivalent number, but how?
Edit
I still believe there's a way to convert each character to it's form depending on positions
any idea is appreciated..