Le 29/05/12 13:12, Shriramana Sharma a écrit :

I think today's software makes such propagation quick. For instance,
the Indian Rupee sign officially announced on Aug 15, 2010, was
released with *ubuntu 10.10 in Nov 2010. See
http://www.kubuntu.org/news/10.10-release


You’re right. I use Ubuntu everyday and I have no problem to display the new Indian rupee symbol (₹). It is available in a number of free fonts (Quivira, Rupakara, DejaVu Sans, DejaVu Sans Mono, DejaVu Serif, Ubuntu, Ubuntu Condensed, Ubuntu Mono, etc.) which anyone can download easily and, when the symbol is missing in a font, the system pick it in another font which contains it. I can type it easily since I’ve added it to my ~/.XCompose file (I type either Shift + Alt Gr + E followed by an r or simply Compose i r. That’s easy.) The main problem is that many people have an outdated system and don’t mind to update their fonts. But what could we do?

JF


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