Topical Document List: Quranic Arabic Characters

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This page provides a chronologically ordered list of documents related to the encoding of Quranic Arabic characters. Included are all UTC documents (with links), all WG2 documents (with links when available), plus other pertinent documents related to the encoding of characters for Quranic Arabic. Documents concerned with generic Arabic encoding and with bidirectional formatting issues are omitted. Documents concerned with regional Arabic character extensions are included, if they are pertinent to Quranic support issues.

L2 Doc №	WG2 Doc №	Other Doc №	Title	Source	Date
		UTC/1991-085A	Koranic stops and vowelization conventions	Alaa Ghoneim	1991
X3L2/93-189			Request for Arabic Characters for the Holy Koraan	Mohamed Saba	1993-11-17
X3L2/94-030			Correspondence on Proposal for Arabic Additions	Lloyd Anderson, Mohammed Saba	1994-01-24
L2/01-325			Three kinds of variation in Arabic script (sukun and jazm)	Thomas Milo	2001
L2/01-425	N2483		Proposal to add Arabic-script honorifics and other marks	Jonathan Kew	2001-11-01
L2/01-426			Proposal to add Arabic-script honorifics and other marks: Appendix: Examples of usage	Jonathan Kew	2001-11-01
L2/01-428			Request for clarification regarding ARABIC END OF AYAH and other Arabic enclosing marks	Jonathan Kew	2001-11-01
L2/02-061			Bidi committee consensus on Arabic additions from L2/01-425	Jonathan Kew	2002-01-29
L2/02-163			Proposal to add Marks and Digits in Arabic Code Block (for Urdu)	Pakistan	2002-04-30
L2/02-197			Urdu Feedback from Bidi Committee	Asmus Freytag, Kamal Mansour, Jonathan Kew, Paul Nelson	2002-05-02
L2/02-227	N2487		Proposal to add 16 Arabic characters [proposal summary form]	U.S.	2002-05-21
L2/02-275			Proposal for Koranic alternate marks	Jonathan Kew	2002-08-02
L2/03-166			Proposal for encoding the combining diacritic ARABIC WASLA	Miikka-Markus Alhonen	2003-05-28
L2/05-150			Proposed Glyph corrections for Arabic	Asmus Freytag, Thomas Milo	2005-05-05
L2/05-151			Annotations to the printing of the 1924 Azhar Qur'an	Thomas Milo	2005
L2/05-203		PRI #73, resolution	Public Review Issue #73: Representative Glyphs for Arabic Characters U+06DF, U+06E0, and U+06E1	Rick McGowan	2005-08-04
L2/05-231			Regarding the proposed changes for the representative glyphs for 06DF, 06E0, and 06E1	Kamal Mansour	2005-08-11
L2/06-385R	N3185R		Proposal to encode four Qur'anic Arabic characters in the UCS	Michael Everson, Roozbeh Pournader	2006-11-08
L2/09-358R			Discussion document for polishing Koranic support in Unicode	Roozbeh Pournader	2009-10-28
L2/09-419R	N3791		Proposal to encode four combining Arabic characters for Koranic use	Roozbeh Pournader	2010-03-30
L2/10-094	N3816		Proposal to change some combining Arabic characters for Quranic representation	King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex	2010-03-21
L2/10-381			Proposal to encode some combining Arabic character for Quranic representation in the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC10646	King Fahd Glorious Quran Printing Complex	2010-04-14
L2/10-455			Of hamza and other harakat	Roozbeh Pournader	2010-11-01
L2/11-069			Letter-making Arabic harakat	Roozbeh Pournader	2011-02-09
L2/11-071			Response from Jonathan Kew on Arabic L2/11-069	Lorna Priest, Jonathan Kew	2011-02-10
L2/13-226			Arabic Amphibious Characters	Thomas Milo	2013
L2/14-095			Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Pakistan	Lateef Sagar Shaikh	2014-04-24
L2/14-096			Proposal to encode Quranic Alternate Dammatan used in Quran published in Pakistan	Lateef Sagar Shaikh	2014-04-25
L2/14-104			Supporting the Warsh orthography for Arabic script	Lorna Evans	2014-04-29
L2/14-105R	N4589		Proposal to encode fourteen Pakistani Quranic marks	Roozbeh Pournader	2014-07-27
L2/14-109			Arabic Inline Characters for Qurʾānic and Classic orthography in Unicode and computer typography	Thomas Milo	2014
L2/14-148			Proposal to encode Quranic mark Ar-Rbaa used in Quran published in Pakistan	Lateef Sagar Shaikh	2014-06-26
L2/14-203R			Proposal to encode Quranic mark Small High Yeh with Fatha used in Pakistan	Lateef Sagar Shaikh	2014-10-20
L2/14-207R			Implications of the Unicode Arabic model for Warsh-based orthographies	Roozbeh Pournader	2014-08-09
L2/14-211			Proposal to encode Warsh-based Arabic script characters	Lorna Evans	2014-08-15
L2/15-329			Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya (Narration of Qaloon with script Aldani)	Mussa A. A. Abudena	2015-11-29
L2/16-044			Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya (Narration of Qaloon with script Aldani) [pdf displays comments on characters]	Mussa A. A. Abudena	2015-11-29
L2/16-056			Proposal to encode Al-Dani Quranic marks used in Quran published in Libya	Lateef Sagar Shaikh	2016-02-16
L2/16-100			Comments on L2/16-056 Proposal to encode Al-Dani Quranic Marks	Mussa A. A. Abudena	2016-04-27
L2/16-102			Consolidated Comments by Mansour, Evans, and Abudena on Al-Dani Quranic Marks (L2/16-056)	Debbie Anderson	2016-05-01
L2/16-153			Types of Quran scripts	Mussa A. A. Abudena	2016-05-04
L2/16-268			Suggestions on some Al-Dani Quranic Marks proposition	Azzeddine Lazrek	2016-09-05
L2/17-004			Explanations about Al-dani Quranic Marks	Mussa A. A. Abudena	2017
L2/17-068			Suggestions on Hamza Al-Dani Quranic Marks proposition	Azzeddine Lazrek	2017-03-27
L2/17-215			Proposal to Encode Additional Wasla Characters for the Holy Quran	Murodulla Begmatov	2017-07-04
L2/17-252			Proposal to encode some Hamza Quranic marks	Azzeddine Lazrek	2017-07-25
L2/17-327			Recommendations on additional Wasla proposition	Azzeddine Lazrek	2017-08-27
L2/17-377			Proposal for the encoding of three Arabic tanween characters	Eric Muller	2017-10-15
L2/18-028			More precisions about Hamza	Azzeddine Lazrek	2017-12-27
L2/18-344			Application to include Arabic alphabet shapes to Arabic 0600 Unicode character set	Mohammad Mohammad Khair	2018-12-17
L2/18-345			Re: Application by Mr. Mohammad M. Khair for addition of two new characters to the Unicode table of Arabic 0600	Khaled Bakro	2018
L2/19-306	N5142		Arabic additions for Quranic orthographies	Roozbeh Pournader, Deborah Anderson	2019-08-31
L2/19-313			Proposal to encode an Arabic qaf with dot below	Marijn van Putten, Roozbeh Pournader	2019-09-23
L2/20-041			Comments on L2/19-306 Arabic additions for Quranic orthographies	Yannis Haralambous	2019-12-27
L2/20-089			Proposal to Encode Characters from Indonesian Orthography of Quran	M. Mahali Syarifuddin	2020-02-28
L2/20-292			Proposal to encode Damma over Damma used in Quran publishd in Tunisia	Lateef Sagar Shaikh	2020-12-11
L2/21-051			On the Arabic Letters Feh & Qaf	Kamal Mansour	2021-01
L2/21-133			Proposal to encode Quranic marks used in Turkey	Lateef Sagar Shaikh	2021-06-24
L2/21-181			Allocating Arabic Extended-C in SMP and Arabic code point changes	Roozbeh Pournader	2021-08-25
L2/21-204			Proposal to encode Quranic superscript Alef Motahafar used in Quran published in Libya	Lateef Sagar Shaikh	2021-08-11
L2/21-239			Comments on L2/21-204 Quranic Superscript Alef Motahafar used in Quran published in Libya	M. van Putten	2021-10-17
L2/22-035			Proposal to encode Arabic Alef with Right Hamza used in Quran published in Iran	Lateef Sagar Shaikh	2021-12-19
L2/22-047			Proposal to encode Arabic Combining Alef Overlay used in Quran published in Libya	Lateef Sagar Shaikh	2022-02-15
L2/22-153			Proposal to Encode Three Quranic Arabic Characters	Rikza F. Sh.	2022-07-07
L2/22-251			Review of some Arabic additions for Quranic orthographies	Salim Al Mandhari	2022-10-18
L2/22-281R			Proposal to Encode Two Quranic Arabic Characters	Rikza F. Sh.	2022-10-17
L2/22-284			List of Unencoded Arabic Characters	Rikza F. Sh.	2022-10-17
L2/23-121			Proposal to encode Arabic Letter Thin Noon	Khaled Hosny, Mostafa Jbire	2023-04-20
L2/24-178			Proposal to Encode Sixteen Quranic Arabic Characters	Rikza F. Sh.	2024-06-05

 

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