Re: New Quranic glyphs

[Mete Kural <metekural at yahoo dot com>]

Nadim,

Did you get any response from Mohammed regarding these
items? I would appreciate it if you could share it
with us as well. Thanks.

Mete

--- Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> Mr. Mohammed Yousif, this subject had been touched
> on before without
> resolution.  You had recently posted about your
> addition of needed
> Quranic glyphs to one of KACST's fonts.
> 
>  
>
http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/general/2003/August/msg00004.html
> 
> Here are a couple of questions.
> 
>  1. Did KACST reply with feedback to your additions
> ?  If you are not
>     being answered, could someone in contact with
> KACST push the issue
>     on our behalf or bring attention about this
> topic to them ?
> 
>  2. Could you make screenshots or generate .png of
> all the new Quranic
>     glyphs (just the glyphs standalone and not in
> context) ?
> 
>  3. The new Quranic glyphs, are they of general need
> and requirement ?
>     In other words, they are not specific to the
> Quran application you
>     are working on.
>     a. If those glyphs are of general nature and
> will indeed be required
>        by others, then we need to propose them to
> unicode for immediate
>        inclusion.
> 
>       http://www.unicode.org/pending/proposals.html
> 
>     NOTE: although it was noted that someone else
> might do this
>           (namely diwan) via this thread,
> 
>      
>
http://lists.arabeyes.org/archives/developer/2003/April/msg00052.html
> 
>           but since diwan was not interested in
> cooperating and/or
>           divulging details, I say we continue with
> the work that's
>           by done by M.Yousif (and others) sooner
> rather than later
>           to get those glyphs included.
> 
> Comments/Remarks ?
> 
> Salam.
> 
>  - Nadim
> 
> 
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