regex for arabic text

i want to use regexp for arabic text. what i should do? use the unicode or what?

[madhan ravi]

Please upload the string you have and what result are you expecting ?

[abdullah alzaqebah]

the orginal string like

str='محمود طالب نجيب ومحمد طالب كسول ';

pattern='محم[و]*د';

matchStr = regexp(str,pattern,'match');

the output of matchstr after run it is:

matchStr =

Columns 1 through 23

'?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?' '?'

Columns 24 through 26

'?' '?' '?'

[Adam Danz]

Works for me (it seems).

 str='محمود طالب نجيب ومحمد طالب كسول ';
pattern='محم[و]*د';
>> regexp(str, pattern)
ans =
     1    18
>> regexp(str, pattern, 'match')
ans =
  1×2 cell array
    {'محمود'}    {'محمد'}

[abdullah alzaqebah]

yes if you type it in command window.

but try to put these three line of codes in file like test.m and try to run it

[Stephen23]

This depends on the file encoding. Perhaps these might help:

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/15423-how-do-i-determine-my-matlab-default-character-encoding-scheme

https://www.mathworks.com/matlabcentral/answers/280988-how-do-i-get-my-matlab-editor-to-read-utf-8-characters-utf-8-characters-in-blank-squares-in-editors

[abdullah alzaqebah]

@Stephen

but wht it works when i type it in command window. and not working when i write all code as script in .m file?

[abdullah alzaqebah]

thanks all

i make it GUI and it works