Jukka K. Korpela wrote:
The situation in Greece is much more serious than in India or Turkey.
If they abandon the euro, they can hardly move back to the old
drachma. It is not just a matter of giving a new symbol for a currency
in use; it’s about an entirely new currency, though possibly under an
old name.
Right, but holding a national contest to design the new symbol will not
magically confer stability and worldwide prestige on the new currency.
That is the great fallacy, and it remains a fallacy whether the symbol
is accepted into Unicode or not.
It could fool newcomers into thinking these bogus marketing
goals played a part in getting the Turkish lira sign into Unicode.
Didn’t they?
If even a small part of UTC's rationale for encoding this symbol was to
make a statement of support for the Turkish lira as a prestigious
currency, or a safe haven, or a storehouse of steadily rising value,
then I'll be quite surprised and disappointed—though it wouldn't be the
first time.
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Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colorado, USA
http://www.ewellic.org | @DougEwell
