Michael Everson: > A proposal to add the character to the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC 10646 was > published yesterday. http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3862.pdf
I’m not sure I’m getting this right. This is how I understand the issue: There is a rupee sign encoded at U+20A8. Its example glyph is a ligature ‘Rs’, i.e. roman script, thereby very Western. This is how it’s implemented in fonts, too, regardless of the scripts the font covers. This sign – similar to ‘$’ – is used for several currencies in Southern Asia, the Indian rupee among them. The Indian government / administration / people is not satisified with the situation. They want a new sign that - is exclusive to the Indian rupee (INR), - “would be the Hindi alphabet Ra with two lines”, i.e. it should look local. Only if INR exclusiveness is vital, the currency symbol would need to obtain a codepoint of its own. Otherwise it would be a font issue to replace the ‘Rs’ ligature ‘₨’ by the new symbol, probably depending on the surrounding language and with slightly different designs for use inside the Indian scripts and other ones.
