On 2 Jun 2012, at 19:49, Jean-François Colson wrote: > At http://store.artlebedev.com/electronics/optimus-popularis/ I see a price > in rubles, 31,500 р, where the currency is written р (Cyrillic r). > But that р is displayed as a capital Р (Cyrillic R) with stroke. > I’ve never been in Russia. That’s why I have a few questions: > Is that symbol is in everyday use?
We don't know. > Is it common? We don't know. > Is it new? Not very; at least one font vendor has been making it available for some time. > Why doesn’t Unicode support it yet? Because I haven't written a proposal for it because so far it does not appear that any of the banking authorities or the Russian Finance Ministry supports it. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
