Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Everson
A proposal to add the character to the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646 was published yesterday. Seehttp://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3862.pdf I have asked the representatives of the Government of India to the Consortium if they would like to revise the proposal into a joint

Re[2]: Arab Ma[r]ks

2010-07-16 Thread Arno Schmitt
CE Whitehead has written: For kazakh it seems that the hamza but not the vowel diacritic displays to the right (apparently in an rtl context). Note that the Kazakh high hamza is not a mark but a letter. It sits before the word (turning all vowels in that word into umlaute). In the

Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol

2010-07-16 Thread Christoph Päper
Michael Everson: A proposal to add the character to the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646 was published yesterday. http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3862.pdf I’m not sure I’m getting this right. This is how I understand the issue: There is a rupee sign encoded at U+20A8. Its example

Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol

2010-07-16 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Michael Everson said on Fri, Jul 16, 2010 at 08:34:24AM +0100,: encoding. At least in the Indian Press they are talking about Unicode and fonts and keyboards. :-) I guess inclusion in the UTS would be taken as a privelege, and a recognition of entry to the elite club. -- Mahesh T. Pai

Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Everson
On 16 Jul 2010, at 09:28, Christoph Päper wrote: There is a rupee sign encoded at U+20A8. Yep. Its example glyph is a ligature ‘Rs’, i.e. roman script, thereby very Western. This is how it’s implemented in fonts, too, regardless of the scripts the font covers. Yep. This sign – similar

Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol

2010-07-16 Thread Martin J. Dürst
On 2010/07/16 16:34, Michael Everson wrote: A proposal to add the character to the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646 was published yesterday. See http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3862.pdf The shape of the currency sign has been specified as “an amalgam” of the DEVANAGARI LETTER RA,

Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Everson
On 16 Jul 2010, at 10:33, Martin J. Dürst wrote: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER RA? Shouldn't that be LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R? Heh. Heh. Heh. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

Indian Rupee symbol

2010-07-16 Thread Andreas Stötzner
http://typophile.com/node/72290 __ Neu: Andron-Zeitschriften-Lizenz http://www.signographie.de/cms/front_content.php?idart=323 Andron-Studenten-Lizenz http://www.signographie.de/cms/front_content.php?idart=207#liz5

Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol

2010-07-16 Thread Tulasi
Really quick! Like war time :-') How long it took for you to write this proposal? And what time have you uploaded to http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/ ? Nice job! Tulasi From: Michael Everson ever...@evertype.com Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:24:50 +0100 Subject: Re: [indic] Indian Rupee

Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Everson
On 16 Jul 2010, at 11:37, Tulasi wrote: Really quick! Like war time :-') How long it took for you to write this proposal? An hour or so. And what time have you uploaded to http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/ ? Nice job! Thank you. As I said, having had experience with the EURO SIGN,

Re: Arab Ma[r]ks

2010-07-16 Thread CE Whitehead
Hi, I need to correct what I just wrote. Sorry. Re: Arab Ma[r]ks From: CE Whitehead (cewcat...@hotmail.com) Date: Thu Jul 15 2010 - 20:52:33 CDT For kazakh it seems that the hamza but not the vowel diacritic displays to the right (apparently in an rtl context). In Arabic, fathatan (the