Sorry for the late reply (finally cleaning out and attending to all email in my inbox).
--- Kamal Mugahid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think the issue here guys is that somebody needs to read text and > compare it to a Mushaf. > Usually, Certified readers do that, but since we don't know any with > Linux experience, the easiest way is to hand this over to somebody who > will take responsibility in saying that he compared every letter of > the mashaf with what is on Quraan Software and authenticate it. This > is a task that takes no more than a month at worst. Are these certification readers a known quantity ? In other words are they sanctioned by any well-known and respected religious entities ? > For the Record: Certification is comparing the text the way it is > rendered on the software end with the Mushaf, letter by letter, > including tashkeel and the other punctuations. Yeah our concern was what if something changes in the font file - would that render the certification void ? How will that happen and who will oversee all of this ? The required characters to render the entire Quran have _NOT_ be specified in Unicode (and they need to be !) and that is one reason why there isn't a single "legal"/correct font that can be used. In short, what I'm getting at is - there will most likely be changes so does that mean we should only seek certification once we are completely done with what we want to do ? What about translations of the Quran ? Is there a body/organization out there that reads/certifies translations to note their validity in the various translations out there (Japanese, Russian, etc) ? Salam. - Nadim __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com
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