Quran Text

This Quran text is derived from Tanzil's Uthmani text. Most of the changes are taken from the following two texts:

• The QPC's text (v13)
• khaledhosny/quran-data

The major goals of this text are threefold:

1. Accuracy.
2. Portability. (In that it doesn't depend on a specific font or device. Rather any device with decent Unicode support can render it.)
3. Unicode-compliance.

Changes

• Use U+06CC (Farsi Yeh) for all Yaa' positions, instead of U+064A (Arabic Yeh) for starting and middle, and U+0649 (Alef Maksura) for final and isolated.
• Use open Tanween (U+08F0, U+08F1, U+08F2) in ikhfaa and idghaam cases, instead of regular Tanween (U+064B, U+064C, U+064D).
• Don't use Tanween before U+06E2 (Small High Meem) (i.e., in iqlaab cases).
• Use U+06E1 (Small High Dotless Head Of Khah) instead of U+0652 (Sukun).
• Use U+06E4 (Small High Madda) instead of U+0653 (Maddah Above).
• Remove spaces before pause marks.
• Use hamzah below when called for.

The small (dagger) alif

Add tatweel after joining characters. This is to avoid them from being shown on top of the letter.

For non joining characters, we add a hair space (U+200A) so that the alif appears on the line, not above the letter. We then add a word joiner (U+2060) so that it doesn't cut the word in half when wrapping.

This is, seemingly, the only portable approach.

Known Issues

(See this discussion)

• There is no Unicode solution for the laam hamzah alif ligature (i.e., لا but with a hamzah in the middle) used in Quranic orthography (e.g. الـٔاخرة).
• The text should use NBSB instead of the hair space hack. Unfortunately, that approach isn't supported in the real world.