Re: Quran - fonts

[Mete Kural <metekural at yahoo dot com>]

I second that. I think there is a need to standardize
the "extensions" to Unicode Arabic for the purpose of
encoding the Quran. Right now it seems like every
other company is extending Unicode with their own
custom codepoints. These extra codepoints needed for
Quran encoding could be standardized, first not as a
part of the Unicode specification (since it takes a
good number of years to get codepoints accepted by
Unicode) and then a united front could be formed to
push these standard codepoints into Unicode. Of course
the cooperation with the Unicode Consortium is
essential to such an effort. Any ideas?

Peace,
Mete

--- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> --- Mohammed Yousif <mhdyousif gmx.net> wrote:
> >   I halted the font I'm creating for some time
> (it's a long process),
> >   but I will be completing it at some point.
> >   Obviously, it will not be a standard Unicode
> font, as unicode lacks
> >   most of Quranic symbols (not to mention the few
> ones defined
> >   int the Unicode standard).
> 
> Mohammed, did you follow the talk with regards to
> diwan and the posts
> by Mete ?  What are your feelings in that regard and
> could we get an
> effort to standardize this - that's one of our
> goals/tasks (to insure
> forward standardization and continuity).
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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