On 16 Jul 2010, at 09:28, Christoph Päper wrote: > There is a rupee sign encoded at U+20A8.
Yep. > 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. Yep. > This sign – similar to ‘$’ – is used for several currencies in Southern Asia, > the Indian rupee among them. Yep. > The Indian government / administration / people is not satisified with the > situation. They want a new sign that > - is exclusive to the Indian rupee (INR), Well, a sign that is specific to the INR. They cant prevent others from using it (as $ is used). > - “would be the Hindi alphabet Ra with two lines”, > i.e. it should look local. It's an amalgam of Devanagari RA and the right half of Latin R with two lines. > 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. No, because that U+20AB has a decomposition to R + s and that would not apply to the new currency sign. Note that some Indian scripts have unique "RU" symbols for the rupee anyway. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
