On Jun 24, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
> http://www.pluggd.in/indian-rupee-symbol-297/
> 
> I don't know if this is a joke or not, but none of those five is any good.

It's no joke; even I, a Yank with no connections on the subcontinent, have been 
aware of the competition for some time.

> Evidently there is a desire to merge Latin R and Devanagari RA and then add 
> stripes.

Just so they don't choose one of the ones that look dangerously like "Rx" signs.

-- 
John W Kennedy
"The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in their 
sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is suffused with 
humanism, our humanism itself, at this late date, has become full of /Pooh./"
  -- Frederick Crews.  "Postmodern Pooh", Preface




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