On Friday 27 February 2004 08:48, Nadim Shaikli wrote: > --- ahmad khalifa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > 2. A completed release of the Quran application so that we > > > can start the long and arduous process to get it certified > > > (we have 2 possible avenues to proceed with now). > > > > well, i asked a friend whose mother works at a school "Tabe3a" to > > AlAzhar AlShareef... in Egypt the highest Islamic Authority is AlAzhar > > AlShareef.. she said you just take it to "Dar El Efta" to get certified.. > > i'd happily do that, if i can put it on CD, which i beleive is not ready > > yet... > > Great, although M.Yousif had noted that he wasn't able to get anything > accomplished there - another try won't harm anyone. Now we just need > a release to package and burn onto a CD to get the ball(s) rolling. >
That's interesting. I only tried with "Mashiakhat Al-Azhar" and Al-Azhar University but I didn't approach "Dar Al-Efta'a". I certainly want to do this myself if it's really possible. > > > 4. Please start a thread on 'developer' to talk about how the > > > data integrity will be insured (md5sum, gpg, etc) so that > > > the Quran application will ONLY work with authentic data > > > given all of this is open source, etc. > > > > well, i took a look at one Quran CD i had, and the formats are just Wav > > and bmp... the sound of the Shiekh Reading is in Wave, one Wave file for > > each "Aya", and all files named according to the Soura and Aya, like for > > example "Goz2 1" /G01/S1A1.wav <--thats Soura 1, aya 1.. > > and the Quran Text is Stored as an image file, just 1 big image file, > > about 65 MB... its not a bmp though, and not compressed in any way, its > > just a format they invented could easily be cracked, if you give it a > > couple of hours... and one more file, its a text file, its a list of 4 > > numbers per line, space separated... 1 line for each "Aya", and 3 other > > numbers, im guessing they describe where the text belonging to this aya > > is on the big image file, because, each aya thats being read is shown in > > red... > > Yeah, what they have doesn't really concern us - the data files we will be > using are plain UTF-8 text and as such we need to be clever about how the > data will be protected and how to insure that the application will only > function with said authenticated data. > > Mohammed.Yousif, do please let us know what you have in mind for those > looking to work on this (at last count there were about 3 people). > There have been some problems with the project (again). I think the release date will be delayed again. _______________________________________________ General mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.arabeyes.org/mailman/listinfo/general
