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August 1, 2026ACM Transactions on Asian and Low-Resource Language Information Processing

Toward a Standardized Collation Sequence for Arabic Words with Special Characters: A Comparative Study of Digital Sorting Systems

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MAManar AlmaneaTATahani Alshahrani

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Overview

Comparative study evaluates alphabetical sorting systems for Arabic words with special characters, suggesting improvements.

Key Points

  • This research aims to evaluate and standardize the sorting of Arabic words containing special characters.
  • Compared sorting systems in Microsoft Office Word, Excel, and Python using UTF-8 encoding.
  • Selected a list of Arabic words with similar consonantal roots but different diacritics for evaluation.
  • Analyzed and extracted sorted outputs to identify discrepancies in sorting.
  • Found significant sorting differences with discrepancies of up to 58% across tested systems.
  • Proposed a secondary alphabetical order for special characters based on linguistic features.
  • Recommended adjustments for software developers to enhance collation algorithms for Arabic script.

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Almanea et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a6d98aae258b358b3c6c59bhttps://doi.org/10.1145/3837067
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