RE: Where to Add new Currency Sign?

From: Jonathan Rosenne (rosenne@qsm.co.il)
Date: Mon Dec 20 1999 - 10:09:22 EST


Many countries nowadays use a regular letter or letters for the currency
sign. What do these countries use?

Jony

> -----Original Message-----
> From: N.R.Liwal [mailto:liwal@liwal.net]
> Sent: Monday, December 20, 1999 2:06 PM
> To: Unicode List
> Subject: Where to Add new Currency Sign?
>
>
> Hi;
>
> I am developing a Unicode base font for Windows 2k, the font have
> Glyps for
> 4 Languages i.e. Pashto, Farsi, Urdu and Arabic, apart from Arabic Pashto
> is National Language of Afghanistan, Urdu of Pakistan and Farsi
> of Iran and
> each of these three countries have their own currencies and I want to
> Provide
> each one with a Currency Symbol. I looked in Unicode Ver 2.0 Book
> and it says that the range is 20a0-20ab their are total of 47
> code points.
>
> Just a few of the World Curency are assigned there and my question is
> which Code Point should I use for the above 3 Countries?
>
> Are 47 Code points are sufficent for the world curruncies?
> or their is another way that I do not know.
>
> Liwal
>
>
>
>



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