Encoding the Holy Koran into Unicode

[Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at myrealbox dot com>]

Salaam Adil
> Please find enclosed my paper on Diwan's work to encode the Quran as
> Unicode.
I received two files: one of them is corrupted and the other Koran2Unicode.pdf 
is Ok. Is it one file or two?


OK Mr. Adil let me say that your paper is the best pdf file I have ever seen.
It's now resides calmly in a sacred folder in my system ;-) Your message is 
also very valuable to me. At last, we have a nice Koran for publishing 
purposes. Alhamdulillah. God bless you all who have contributed to this.  
Ameen. I will recommend your software to everybody I know in the DTP industry 
and I know of many for sure. Just tell me whose your agent in Saudi Arabia, 
Riyadh. (any phone numbers?).

Another issue is that there is a promising project of Quran in arabeyes.org. 
People there wants to implement Quran in GNU/linux OS and we were thinking to 
make a Unicode Koran font. Now I see your technology as the best solution I 
have ever met across. (much better than 3B2 which is widely used for this 
purpose). The question is how can the linux community and you benefit from 
this? I hope you love the free (as in freedom)/open source movement like us 
so you will help us. Otherwise, we will consider paying you some money to 
allow us to use your font under a certain license. I have no good vision of 
the subject yet but I will discuss it with the people at the developer list 
and there are knowlegable people there!


> Hello Munzir,
>
> Please find enclosed my paper on Diwan's work to encode the Quran as
> Unicode. The project is complete and it is already in Diwan's commercial
> product - al-Nashir al-Sahafi Yaqout.
>
> Java 1.4 is now final and the Java Quran is also complete and running at
> http://mushaf.diwan.com. This can be browsed freely on the Internet. You
> would need to have Java 1.4 installed on your computer - this can be
> downloaded from www.java.sun.com.
>
> Regards,
>
> Adil
>
> At 3:16 pm +0100 1/4/03, info at diwan dot com wrote:
> >>Organization: New Horizons
> >>From: Munzir Taha <munzirtaha at myrealbox dot com>
> >>To: info at diwan dot com
> >>Subject: I want more info about the Quran encoding urgently, please
> >>Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 12:16:23 +0100
> >>
> >>Salamu Alaikum,
> >>I loved your software very much and it's recommended to me by an expert
> >>publisher. I want more info about the encoding of Quran in Unicode. What
> >>about the paper you have provided at Unicode? can I get a copy? Is it
> >> ready now? Java 1.4 is still beta can I use it? where in Sun's site can
> >> I find info? Will the Quran encoding be available for free in the
> >> Internet so any one can use it?
> >>--
> >>Munzir Taha,
> >>Telecommunications and Electronics Engineer,
> >>Certified Internet Webmaster, (CIW),
> >>Microsoft Office User Specialist, (MOUS),
> >>New Horizons Computer Learning Centers,
> >>Riyadh, Saudi Arabia