Roozbeh,
>It doesn't have any international use, because it may be mistaken
>by Saudi Arabic Rials or things like that.
I am sorry to see that much of the Arabic support has left out Farsi & Urdu
support because of short sightedness. They could have planned ahead and
gone the extra bit to add the support in the beginning.
I think that we should look into if other countries use a different form of
Rial as you do. Then we can make an informed decision. It may be that
yours is a unique case or it may be that other countries to the same or
similar things. If they do, then it may be best to include their input as
well.
I am sure that if you have a problem fitting Rials on to a price tag that
the problem is not unique to Iran.
Carl
-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
Behalf Of Roozbeh Pournader
Sent: Wednesday, April 04, 2001 3:34 AM
To: Michael (michka) Kaplan
Cc: Unicode List
Subject: Re: Iranian Rial sign proposal
On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:
> Like Doug, I am a little curious as to the decision on where the symbol
> would go... would you really want it in the presentation forms that are
> merely for backwards compatibility? I think there are two options for
> currency symbols:
But it's only for backward compatiblity...
> 1) In the curreny Symbols block if there is even the remotest chance that
> this might be a shared symbol, or
It won't be. It's nothing more than a rendering of word Rial, sometimes
narrower to fit in one column in fixed-width fonts. It doesn't have any
international use, because it may be mistaken by Saudi Arabic Rials or
things like that.
--roozbeh
