Re: Where to Add new Currency Sign? -- Cultural adaptability

From: peter_constable@sil.org
Date: Tue Dec 21 1999 - 18:02:14 EST

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Jean-Yves:

>There are two parts to this issue:
1. IT enablement
2. User presentation

>By using codes, computers are able to identify information.
Currency codes are not different from other "information
element" such as "country codes", "language codes", etc...

[snip]

I don't see the connection with my posting, to which you
responded:

       PC> Perhaps the main point to be taken from what Liwal
       was saying
> is that it would be good to ensure that there is room
       reserved
> in the BMP for future additions of currency symbols for
> countries not represented by currency symbols currently
        in the
> standard.

(Not that I disagree with anything you said in your response.)

Peter

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