[Wikimediaindia-l] The rupee

Hoi, I asked Michael Everson if he had more information about the new symbol for the rupee. He did and I blogged about it based on his information. Obviously this is a special case but essentially when there is a need for new characters there is a procedure for getting them included in Unicode. Onc

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The rupee

Here is the link to the proposal prepared by Michael Everson. http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3862.pdf But I am not sure whether this is yet submitted to the Unicode consortium. As per this suggestion, it seems like U+20B9 will be allocate

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The rupee

Hoi, The text as prepared by Michael is the link under "working group document". It is this document that has is also what is valid for Unicode. The code U+20B9 is as far as I know not official and until it is I would feel hesitant of using it. Thanks, GerardM On 20 July 2010 14:05, Shiju Ale

[Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Malayalam WIkipedia /Wikimedia Academy - Palakkad , Kerala - 24 July 2010

Resending , as the earlier mail with embedded photos was not accepted by the mailing list. Academy: http://ml.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E0%B4%B5%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%95%E0%B5%8D%E0%B4%95%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AA%E0%B5%80%E0%B4%A1%E0%B4%BF%E0%B4%AF:Palakkad_wikipedia_Academy_1 Images of the Press conference : http:

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] Fwd: Malayalam WIkipedia /Wikimedia Academy - Palakkad , Kerala - 24 July 2010

This is the first Malayalam Wiki Academy in Kerala and 3rd in the total. the first two was conducted in Bangalore. Being conducted in Kerala after the initiative of the offline CD and the meetup held in Kochi in April'10