Were there any from this group took part in the competition? > 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.
Exactly! > Just so they don't choose one of the ones that look dangerously like "Rx" > signs. All looks close to sort of handwritten "Rx" But what does "Rx" means? Tulasi From: John W Kennedy <[email protected]> Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:13:14 -0400 Subject: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today To: Michael Everson <[email protected]> Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion <[email protected]> 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
