Tanzil
From ZekrWiki
Tanzil is a quranic project launched in early 2007 to produce a highly verified precise quran text to be used in quranic websites and applications. Tanzil project's mission is to produce a standard quran text and serve as a reliable source for this standard text on the web.
Tanzil project release was announced on Zekr mailing list on Feb 5, 2008. Zekr already uses a beta copy of Quran text provided by Tanzil project from version 0.6.0 beta 2.
From Tanzil Wiki:
Many of the Quran texts publicly available on the web suffer from lots of typos, mainly due to the following facts:
- Missing Diacritics
- A popular Quran text which is widely used in websites and applications is based on an old diacritic-less copy of the Quran into which diacritics are manually added over time by some volunteers. Unfortunately, the diacritics added to this text are incomplete and have tons of typos.
- Text Conversion
- Printed copies of the holy Quran are usually published in Uthmani script, while electronic copies of the Quran are commonly prepared in the simple (Imla'ei) script. The conversion between these two text types has been the source of many inconsistencies and typos in the digital texts.
- Technical Difficulties
- The common Arabic character sets used in web-pages and applications to encode Quran texts lack some of the essential diacritics and symbols needed. For example, the widely used Arabic encoding called "Windows-1256" does not have any code-point for small-alef which is needed to represent a complete Quran texts.
