title: What Encoding scheme to use for Arabic cursive text forms in Matlab?
body: <p>I want to read an Arabic.txt file into MATLAB and access the unicode for each character. The issue is that matlab shows unicode for isolated character, even if the character has been written in one of the forms (initial/middle/end). I am using UTF-8 encoding scheme. For accessing file I am using fopen and textscan command. For unicode I use this function. 
  dec2hex(double(char(1))).
  For example for letter 'peh' initial form I am getting "067E" instead of "FB58".
  Can anyone help?</p>