RE: India seeks Rupee status symbol

From: Peter Constable (petercon@microsoft.com)
Date: Wed Mar 11 2009 - 09:10:22 CST

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    When you say "the Indian writing tradition", would that be Devanagari? Gujarati? ...

    From one perspective, Latin has a convenient neutrality.

    Peter

    -----Original Message-----
    From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On Behalf Of Johannes Bergerhausen
    Sent: Wednesday, March 11, 2009 2:43 AM
    To: unicode Unicode Discussion
    Subject: Re: India seeks Rupee status symbol

    ... there are more Rupee related characters in the Unicode standard:

    U+09F2 BENGALI RUPEE MARK
    U+09F3 BENGALI RUPEE SIGN
    U+0AF1 GUJARATI RUPEE SIGN
    U+0BF9 TAMIL RUPEE SIGN
    U+20A8 RUPEE SIGN

    Would be nice (from the typographic point of view) if India would come
    up with a character that refects more the indian than the latin
    writing tradition.

    There is nearly some kind of *glyph code* for currency symbols in the
    last years:
    two bars.

    Best regards,
    Johannes

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