Well, in all the time I've lived in India, I've never seen the Rs sign with
a
horizontal stroke through it. It is always without it, and there is also a
Re.
symbol for the singular. I've also never seen the
French Franc sign as depicted in the standard, or the Ecu sign (not to be
confused with the Euro sign). Missing from the standard is the Philippine
Peso sign, which is quite common over there, and should be added. If you
search a little bit further, you will be able to locate a Thai bath sign,
and a Dutch florin sign, unfortunately unified with an African variant of f
(shame on unicode, they don't even look the same!), and ofcourse
Pound, Yen, and Dollar. Notice also the Bengali symbols for currency.
-----Original Message-----
From: Tae Sayama <tsayama@transperfect.com>
To: Unicode List <unicode@unicode.org>
Date: Tuesday, July 06, 1999 19:52
Subject: currency symbols
>
>
>Hello...
>Could someone answer a question I have regarding the Unicode currency
>symbols?
>I am doing a research on currency symbols, and am trying to come up with a
>comprehensive list of currency symbols (NOT abbreviations, such as FF or
>USD) of different countries. I came upon the currency code chart on the
>Unicode website, and I have a few questions regarding the nature of these
>symbols:
>are these symbols actually being used by natives in the country? (do the
>French actually recognize and use the sign with the r sumperimposed on the
>F?) if not, how did these symbols come into being? who uses them, and in
>what context?
>Thank you!
>
>Tae
>
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