Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The rupee

In all fairness, what Ashwin Kumar has done *is* a workaround since until the UTC meets next month there is no possibility of putting the INDIAN RUPEE SIGN in any place in a font apart from the Private Use Area or (as he has done) in ASCII. It would be a bad thing for this to get put into real

Re: [Wikimediaindia-l] The rupee

t; Thank You and Best Regards, > > Ashwin Kumar I R > > +91 98433 28295 > > > > > -- > From: gerard.meijs...@gmail.com > Date: Tue, 20 Jul 2010 14:28:27 +0200 > To: wikimediaindia-l@lists.wikimedia.org > CC: michael.ever...@gmail.c

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

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

[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