help with Arabic language tokenizer

[sara ali]

Hello 

I have   Arabic corpus that I want split to characters i.e. letters .i am using "nltk.word_tokenize". could someone kindly  please recommend a way to split Arabic text to characters.

Kind Regards 

[Alexis]

This should be handled well by Python itself, you do not need a tokenizer for letters.

1. Make sure you are using Python 3, not Python 2.7

2. Read in the file with the correct encoding.

3. If s is a string containing arabic, any iteration or list operation will process one character at a time. E.g.,

    letters = list(s) or

   for x in s:

      print(x)

Alexis