Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?

2010-07-30 Thread André Szabolcs Szelp
Actually, while it's quite probable that the sign won't be used by any other currency, I believe there would be no way to prevent that. Cf. the usage of $ all over the world. I believe, other nations using a rupee _could_ adopt it. Having all that said, I don't believe though, as all recent movemen

Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?

2010-07-29 Thread Shriramana Sharma
Thanks all for responding. Of course it was my mistake to forget that there are other countries using the Rupee currency. Maybe the new character will be named the INDIAN RUPEE SIGN to underline the fact that this sign is only for India. -- Shriramana Sharma

Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?

2010-07-28 Thread Philippe Verdy
"Alex Plantema" wrote: > Other countries have a currency named rupee as well. They keep using 20A8. And this is exactly what the Indian governement wants to avoid: a confusion about which currency 20A8 represents. They want a unique character that will ONLY be interpreted as the INDIAN Rupee. And

Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?

2010-07-28 Thread Alex Plantema
Op wo 28 juli 2010 11:22 schreef Shriramana Sharma: > This is a somewhat late mail and please forgive me if this question has > already been asked but there are too many hits for 20A8 Rupee when > searching through the lists. Isn't it possible to just change the glyph > of 20A8? To my knowledge, f

Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?

2010-07-28 Thread Neil Harris
On 28/07/10 10:22, Shriramana Sharma wrote: This is a somewhat late mail and please forgive me if this question has already been asked but there are too many hits for 20A8 Rupee when searching through the lists. Isn't it possible to just change the glyph of 20A8? To my knowledge, few people act

Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?

2010-07-28 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Shriramana Sharma said on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 02:52:46PM +0530,: > This is a somewhat late mail and please forgive me if this question > has already been asked but there are too many hits for 20A8 Rupee > when searching through the lists. Isn't it possible to just change > the glyph of 20A8?

Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?

2010-07-28 Thread Shriramana Sharma
This is a somewhat late mail and please forgive me if this question has already been asked but there are too many hits for 20A8 Rupee when searching through the lists. Isn't it possible to just change the glyph of 20A8? To my knowledge, few people actually use 20A8 to display the existing repre