Re: Volunteers for verifying the quran data

["Mete Kural" <metek at touchtonecorp dot com>]

Tom had some ideas on creating a whole new code chart from scratch for proper Arabic that is ideal for scholarly research in Level 2 plain of Unicode (so it would still be under the umbrella of Unicode). Then there would be a well defined conversion scheme between Unicode 06xx block and this new codeblock. He can perhaps give us some insight after he's back from his conference.

But that would be a long term project and I wouldn't expect anything solid within the next five years.

In any case though I believe a seperate Unicode codeblock should be the last resort if the Unicode Consortium does not allow the addition of some controversial codepoints to support provide rich support for scholarly research. I would much rather prefer that there is one single Arabic codeblock and not a second one.

Regards,
Mete

---------- Original Message ----------------------------------
From: Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com>
Reply-To: General Arabization Discussion <general at arabeyes dot org>
Date:  Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:23:30 +0800

>Anyone willing to create the PDF's? Any suggestions? Should I create 1
>file per sura, or per juz, or create the exact same appearance as in
>the mushaf?
>
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>On 6/25/05, Mohammed Sameer <msameer at foolab dot org> wrote:
>> On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 01:02:24AM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote:
>> > --- Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <meor dot ridzuan at gmail dot com> wrote:
>> > > It is actually not a windows app. If you visit the site (the pakistani
>> > > site, not arabeyes quran project) you can see that there is no
>> > > application distributed there. To proofread, what you have to do is
>> > > get the XML file, font file, and one file named htm.zip, namely a perl
>> > > script for cenverting the xml fiel to html file.
>> >
>> > You might want to consider uploading PDFs for people to simply view.  In
>> > other words, create the PDFs and give people access to them so they can
>> > proof read 'em -- wouldn't that be easier (leading to more participants) ?
>> >
>> 
>> I second this. I know someone in pakistan who offered to help doing this through the Islamic authorities there. This'll help for sure.
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