> On Thursday 17 June 2004 02:23, Thomas Milo wrote: > > > > Our partners Tradigital have a big office in Cairo where they work on > > encoding the Qur'an in close cooperation with the Azhar. I met there with > > Sheikh Ali Gomaa. There reason I was there is that they had no clue about > > Unicode. > > > > I don't Sheikh Ali Gomaa, but Al-Azhar normally doesn't hand older masahef > unless explicitly requested. > So my suggestion is to always make sure that you really got what you were > looking for not what was suggested by a single vendor. > > btw: Al-Azhar has really very weak policies regarding computer technologies, > so this cooperation is probably weak too.
Indeed, therefore it is not necessary to keep referring to al-azhar_ (in reversible transcription) in our disputes. After all we are working on an analysis of the problem in terms of logical and visual aspects, not on a fatwa about it. What I need to see is scans of authorized Qur'anic text that shows fathatan on top of alif. t _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
