Re: Useful info for The Quran Project

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at myrealbox dot com>]

Correct me Mr Roozbeh if I am wrong.

>One problem is that almost all of the Arabic fonts
>that have been developed so far for displaying the
>Quran miss a very important fundamental point that the
>text should be encoded in graphemes (base letters of a
>language), not allographs (variants of a letter).
After all this is what Unicode is about. To encode letters using graphemes not 
allographs. As far as I understand allographs is more or less glyphs of the 
same grapheme. one grapheme could have unlimited number of allographs and one 
allograph might represent more than one grahpeme. It's not easy to say just 
use grahpemes. Sometimes you will be forced to use allographs ;-)

But why do we need to reinvent the wheel? Which is better: to help me trace 
this Diwani font which took 3 years to be designed by a professional Iraqi 
calligrahpher which should be available in the Internet for free as they say 
or spend another three years????? If all else failed then we had better 
cooperate with Mr. Yousuf or kacst to improve their Quran font, isn't it? I 
want Muhammad Yousuf to commnet on this. What do you think?


-- 
Munzir Taha,
Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer,
Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW),
Microsoft Office User Specialist, (MOUS),
New Horizons Computer Learning Centers,
Riyadh, Saudi Arabia