worldwide have been trained in seed conservation techniques. Paul Smith, head of the MSB, said: " Plant diversity is a vital part of the system upon which we depend. The need for the kind of insurance policy the Millennium Seed Bank provides has never been greater ". Earlier last month another project was launched to document all the 1.8 million named species of life on Earth. Called the Encycl...

Koranic text is one of the most widely written Arabic texts and though it is written in Arabic language, it needs special handling because of the its unique orthographic conventions. Unicode has long supported special Koranic characters, but there still few more needed for proper encoding of Koranic text. The L2/09-419 proposal takes step towards full Koran coverage in Unicode, but we believe i...