On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Kent Karlsson <[email protected]> wrote: > > Den 2010-07-15 11.54, skrev "N. Ganesan" <[email protected]>: > >> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Dr Pavanaja <[email protected]> >> wrote: >>> Now that Indian Rupee symbol has been finalised and accepted by the Indian >>> Parliament can it go into Unicode ver 6.0? >>> >> >> For a look at the new sign for Indian Rupees: >> >> http://minal.nairi.net/images/work/rupee_01_L.jpg > > That glyph is different from the others cited for this approved(?) symbol. > Separate enough not to be unifiable with the others... (Neither of these > look anything like any of the "finalists".) >
This symbol misses a horizontal stroke, hence it's incomplete. The correct symbol (eventually we can see it in Unicode charts) is given in BBC and NY Times: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/business/global/16rupee.html?src=busln http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south+asia-10644730 http://graphics8.nytimes.com/images/2010/07/16/business/global/16rupee-inline/16rupee-inline-articleInline.jpg N. Ganesan >> http://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=i&ned=us&hl=en&q=india+rupee+symbol&; >> ncl=d6Fqo-wq_tHz-YMha5mr0AeQdPizM >> >> http://www.business24-7.ae/banking-finance/banking/indian-rupee-symbol-is-appr >> oved-2010-07-15-1.266820 > > Subheading says: "Currency becomes fifth in the world to have a distinct > identity". Hmm, silly me, I thought each currency (nearly 300 of them > worldwide, going by ISO currency codes) had a "distinct identity". > > Even when just looking at currency symbols, then many of them are used for > more than one currency and even just counting the number of currency > symbols, there are a lot more than four already... > > /Kent K > >> Hope it gets into the Unicode soon >> like $ etc., >> >> N. Ganesan >> >> > > >
