11digitboy wrote:
> If they don't put it in this minute, there is something
> WRONG. It is a CURRENCY symbol, for Pete's sake! I
> mean, DOLLAR SIGN is not LATIN LETTER S WITH STROKE....
> And it is *UNI*code....
>
Currency symbols should probably be encoded without
delay, but is this really a currency symbol? It appears
to be the word "rial" written in Arabic.
In Roozbeh Pournader's proposal, justification is given that
"rial" has existed for a long time as a single keystroke on
Iranian keyboards, but is this sufficient? The proposal
mentions also that "rial" is typically rendered with
letters which are more narrow than the norm, but might
this be because of the physical limitations imposed by
being fit onto one typewriter key?
Precedents exist for encoding Arabic words/phrases in
Unicode as single code points, see U+FDFA and U+FDFB.
If "rial" is to be encoded, perhaps the Arabic Presentation
Forms range would be the best place.
In an older book covering Iranian coinage one can find, in
addition to "rial", other monetary units like "dinar", "toman",
"kran (qiran)", etc. The letters forming any of these
monetary unit words might combine calligraphically to
form unique and beautiful ligatures, but perhaps this
should be treated as a display/fonts issue rather than
an encoding issue.
Best regards,
James Kass.
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