#!/usr/bin/env perl use strict; use warnings; use Encode::Arabic::Buckwalter; use Getopt::Long "GetOptions"; my $direction; GetOptions('direction=i' => \$direction) or exit(1); # direction: 1=arabic->bw, 2=bw->arabic die("ERROR: need to set direction") unless defined($direction); while (my $line = ) { chomp($line); my $lineOut; if ($direction == 1) { $lineOut = encode 'buckwalter', decode 'utf8', $line; } elsif ($direction == 2) { $lineOut = encode 'utf8', decode 'buckwalter', $line; } else { die("Unknown direction: $direction"); } print "$lineOut\n"; }