[Tutor] What kind of number is this

Fri Jul 24 17:54:13 CEST 2009

Hi Tutors,
I have a bunch of text files that have many occurrences like the following
which I believe, given the context,  are numbers:

&#1633;&#1640;&#1639;&#1634;

&#1637;&#1639;

 &#1634;&#1632;&#1632;&#1640;

etc.

So, can somebody please explain what kind of numbers these are, and how I
can get the original numbers back. The files are in Arabic and were
downloaded from an Arabic website.
I'm running python2.6 on Ubuntu 9.04

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الغزالي
"No victim has ever been more repressed and alienated than the truth"

Emad Soliman Nawfal
Indiana University, Bloomington
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