Re: Unicode and Arabic

[Nadim Shaikli <shaikli at yahoo dot com>]

--- Muhammad Alkarouri <malkarouri at yahoo dot co dot uk> wrote:
>
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>
> Actually, it is a bit of luck that this arose at this time. I have
> a friend who is interested in having full support for quran in unicode,
> and when I told him it's an old topic here he asked me for links (in
> the mailing list). Can anybody tell me which are the relevant threads,
> and put it in the wiki page above? 

The person to talk about this is M.Yousif - he's floated a proposal to
include a number of missing characters to which I'm unsure of the status
at this point (but it had some difficulty).  As it stands now one is
unable to encode the Quran via Unicode in any specified standard way
due to the missing characters.  M.Yousif has, though, included those
characters in unused (non-standard) encodings in the following font
file which the 'Quran' [1] project is using,

  http://cvs.arabeyes.org/viewcvs/projects/quran/fonts

Hope that helps - for further details/info Mohammed.Yousif is the right
person to probe.

[1] http://www.arabeyes.org/project.php?proj=Quran

Salam.

 - Nadim


		
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