title: Is there a way to compare Arabic characters without regard to their initial/medial/final form?
body: <p>In Latin script, letters have an upper case and a lower case form. In Python, if you want to compare two strings without regard to their case, you can convert them to the same case using <code>'string'.upper()</code> or <code>'string'.lower()</code></p>
  
  <p>In Arabic script, letters can have an initial, medial, or final form. Is there a similar way to compare strings of Arabic characters without caring which form the letters are in?</p>