Am Donnerstag, 31. Mai 2012 um 20:09 schrieb John H. Jenkins: JHJ> <tongue-in-cheek> JHJ> ... that because some JHJ> countries have currency symbols with decidated code points, other JHJ> countries will make *new* currency symbols and demand that *they* JHJ> get dedicated code points ...
Seriously speaking, flag symbols and currency signs are completely different topics. Every country has exactly one flag, right now. Thus, in fact an encoding proposal proposing only a few of them based on an arbitrary collection made by some telephone companies without proving any scrutiny for its making never can be acceptable for most national bodies represented in ISO. On the other hand, currencies may exist without a currency symbol (as in fact most currencies do). In fact, all currency symbols assigned to currencies valid today are included in Unicode now, with only two exceptions after acceptance for the new Turkish Lira sign: AZN Azerbaijan Manat (waiting for confirmation of its actual use), ANG Netherlands Antillean guilder (used formerly mostly for NLG Dutch guilder which was valid until 2002; problematically unified with U+0192 LATIN SMALL LETTER F WITH HOOK; see http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3588.pdf ) On this base, nobody will request the addition of other symbols as precondition for acceptance for any new currency sign on ballot. - Karl