Re: Arabic Quran XML data

[Mete Kural <metekural at yahoo dot com>]

Salaam Samy,

Thanks for getting in contact with the Qurancomplex.
Once you establish contact with a someone from there,
could you also ask them if they have any ongoing or
planned efforts to encode the Arabic Quran in Unicode
or at least some kind of computerized character
encoding. Also, if you can, could you forward me the
email address of the person who is responsible of such
a project if there exists one? Please ask him (the
person responsible of a computerized Quran project) if
it would be OK for me to contact him via email.

Thank you,
Mete

--- Samy Al Bahra <samy at kerneled dot com> wrote:
> On Tue, 30 Sep 2003 08:23:59 -0700 (PDT)
> Mete Kural <metekural at yahoo dot com> wrote:
> 
> > So I understand that what we are waiting for is
> > assistance from the Qurancomplex. Last year I
> tried
> > making similar inquiries to the Qurancomplex
> multiple
> > times via email but my inquiries were not
> fulfilled.
> > It seems like they area not good at handling
> inquiries
> > via email. Which person from Arabeyes.org took the
> > responsibility to correspond with the
> Qurancomplex?
> I *am* on this. Hope for results soon...
> 
> A while back I called the administrative contact of
> the domain and
> discussed the current state of the Quran project
> with him. He said
> QuranComplex is willing to provide translations in
> an electronic format
> (unknown) to Arabeyes as long as it is a non-profit
> organization
> (legality of this does not matter) and told me to
> follow-up on e-mail.
> No results.
> 
> > What is the progress so far? Is there anything
> that
> > can be done to accelerate the progress with the
> > Qurancomplex?
> Walid Shaari has provided me with the number to the
> IT administrator 
> of QuranComplex (it is validated, unfortunately it
> seems the man was out
> of the office). Tomorrow I shall try again, if no
> results are gained on
> the phone or once again there was no contact with
> the IT administrator I
> will move up the Saudi Computer Society to see this
> issue is resolved.
> 
> Salam.
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