Can write arabic and can't read it [duplicate]

i have serious problem and i can't solve it my text editor (gedit,KWrite etc) can write Arabic but it can't read it i installed arabic package on my computer and also i configure my layout to arabic so if anyone can help me

I'm using ubuntu 12.04 LTS

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Based on your clarifying comment, you seem to have an encoding problem. In gedit, after having selected "File -> Open", you can explicitly select the character encoding that fits the document you want to open. Probably it should be something else but UTF-8 for the files in question.

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