Den 2010-07-15 11.17, skrev "Dr Pavanaja" <[email protected]>:
> I just found one interesting thing. In the code chart Common Indic Number > Forms at http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/UA830.pdf, there is something known > as North Indic Rupee Mark (A838). What is this? Was this included as a > placeholder for the Rupee symbol? Another discovery I made just now- there is > already a Bengali Rupee symbol in Bengali code chart. --------------------- Well, there's 09F2;BENGALI RUPEE MARK;Sc;0;ET;;;;;N;;;;; 09F3;BENGALI RUPEE SIGN;Sc;0;ET;;;;;N;;;;; 0AF1;GUJARATI RUPEE SIGN;Sc;0;ET;;;;;N;;;;; 0BF9;TAMIL RUPEE SIGN;Sc;0;ET;;;;;N;;;;; 20A8;RUPEE SIGN;Sc;0;ET;<compat> 0052 0073;;;;N;;;;; A838;NORTH INDIC RUPEE MARK;Sc;0;ET;;;;;N;;;;; As to the question about A838 ("Was this included as a placeholder for the Rupee symbol?"): Without looking any deeper, I can immediately say: DEFINITELY NOT. You did not provide any links... But I found this one: http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2010/07/15/62286/ (Just a blog, and thus very far from official...) Anyhow, it says: "the internationally recognised the US dollar ($), the euro (€), the UK pound (£) and the Japanese Yen (¥)". But the $ sign is used for many other currencies beside the US dollar, the £ sign is used for some other currencies beside the GB pound, and the ¥ symbol is used for some other currencies beside the Japanese yen... In addition, if this new rupee symbol, even if named INDIAN RUPEE SIGN, is adopted as a character (which is more or less certain of the symbol is officially adopted in India), it will very likely be used for other rupee or similarly named currencies. Even if that is not officially sanctioned by anyone. Like these ones: Sri Lanka Rupee Mauritian Rupee Maldivian Rufiyaa Nepalese Rupee Pakistani Rupee Seychellois Rupee maybe even Bangladeshi Taka /Kent K
