Tom had some ideas on creating a whole new code chart from scratch for proper Arabic that is ideal for scholarly research in Level 2 plain of Unicode (so it would still be under the umbrella of Unicode). Then there would be a well defined conversion scheme between Unicode 06xx block and this new codeblock. He can perhaps give us some insight after he's back from his conference.
But that would be a long term project and I wouldn't expect anything solid within the next five years. In any case though I believe a seperate Unicode codeblock should be the last resort if the Unicode Consortium does not allow the addition of some controversial codepoints to support provide rich support for scholarly research. I would much rather prefer that there is one single Arabic codeblock and not a second one. Regards, Mete ---------- Original Message ---------------------------------- From: Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: General Arabization Discussion <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 27 Jun 2005 11:23:30 +0800 >Anyone willing to create the PDF's? Any suggestions? Should I create 1 >file per sura, or per juz, or create the exact same appearance as in >the mushaf? > > >On 6/25/05, Mohammed Sameer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 at 01:02:24AM -0700, Nadim Shaikli wrote: >> > --- Meor Ridzuan Meor Yahaya <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > It is actually not a windows app. If you visit the site (the pakistani >> > > site, not arabeyes quran project) you can see that there is no >> > > application distributed there. To proofread, what you have to do is >> > > get the XML file, font file, and one file named htm.zip, namely a perl >> > > script for cenverting the xml fiel to html file. >> > >> > You might want to consider uploading PDFs for people to simply view. In >> > other words, create the PDFs and give people access to them so they can >> > proof read 'em -- wouldn't that be easier (leading to more participants) ? >> > >> >> I second this. I know someone in pakistan who offered to help doing this >> through the Islamic authorities there. This'll help for sure. >> >> -- >> ---------------- >> -- Katoob Main Developer, Arabbix Maintainer. >> GNU/Linux registered user #224950 >> Proud Egyptian GNU/Linux User Group <www.eglug.org> Admin. >> Life powered by Debian, Homepage: www.foolab.org >> -- >> Don't send me any attachment in Micro$oft (.DOC, .PPT) format please >> Read http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html >> Preferable attachments: .PDF, .HTML, .TXT >> Thanx for adding this text to Your signature >> >> >> BodyID:2173897.2.n.logpart (stored separately) >> >> _______________________________________________ >> General mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general >> > > -- Mete Kural Touchtone Corporation 714-755-2810 --
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