Re: Quran Copyright

2004-06-19 Thread Behdad Esfahbod
Hi, The Arabic text is not copyrighted in plain text, but any annotated version is copyrighted, as well as any translation and audio. The rule is: Everything is copyrighted unless proved otherwise. behdad On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, S N wrote: > Hello, > I am trying to find some information on cop

Quran Copyright

2004-06-19 Thread S N
Hello,   I am trying to find some information on copyright issues related to Quran text. I would appreciate any suggestion that might point me to the right direction. In developing a software containing the Quran text, what should I take into consideration in terms of what's subject to copyright la

Re: [Persian Locale d6 Feedback] Short Format Dates

2004-06-19 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 18:41, Hooman Mehr wrote: > [...] The best solution in my opinion is to provide exact format strings (as > arrays of Unicode characters with specific placeholders for date > elements). This will avoid any possible ambiguity in the specification. That will be specified in a

[Persian Locale d6 Feedback] Short Format Dates

2004-06-19 Thread Hooman Mehr
Dear Roozbeh, In page 2 (physical page 3) of the Locale draft, the short format locale is specified in a table with some examples and explanation. The missing information is this: We know that the correct way to read (pronounce) a short format date that looks like "1358/1/12" is "12-e Farvardin

Re: khatt e Farsi

2004-06-19 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Fri, 2004-06-18 at 21:49, Peyman wrote: > After resolving this issue, I try to go through the nice draft and > give my suggestions if any. We would appreciate suggestions, independent of whether this issue gets resolved or not. roozbeh ___ Persian

Re: Personal names survey

2004-06-19 Thread Roozbeh Pournader
On Sat, 2004-06-19 at 00:32, C Bobroff wrote: > I'm so glad you also now see that to *forbid* marking ezaafe in personal > names is absurd. Connie, Please! You really don't see the point? We are not documenting practice in the locale spec, we are *specifying* a single way to do things. People are