From: N. Ganesan (naa.ganesan@gmail.com)
Date: Thu Jul 15 2010 - 10:26:54 CDT
On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 7:22 AM, Kent Karlsson
<kent.karlsson14@telia.com> wrote:
>
> Den 2010-07-15 11.54, skrev "N. Ganesan" <naa.ganesan@gmail.com>:
>
>> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 4:08 AM, Dr Pavanaja <pavanaja@vishvakannada.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Now that Indian Rupee symbol has been finalised and accepted by the Indian
>>> Parliament can it go into Unicode ver 6.0?
>>>
>>
>> For a look at the new sign for Indian Rupees:
>>
>> http://minal.nairi.net/images/work/rupee_01_L.jpg
>
> That glyph is different from the others cited for this approved(?) symbol.
> Separate enough not to be unifiable with the others... (Neither of these
> look anything like any of the "finalists".)
>
This symbol misses a horizontal stroke, hence it's incomplete.
The correct symbol (eventually we can see it in Unicode charts)
is given in BBC and NY Times:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/07/16/business/global/16rupee.html?src=busln
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-south+asia-10644730
N. Ganesan
>> http://news.google.com/news/story?pz=1&cf=i&ned=us&hl=en&q=india+rupee+symbol
>> ncl=d6Fqo-wq_tHz-YMha5mr0AeQdPizM
>>
>> http://www.business24-7.ae/banking-finance/banking/indian-rupee-symbol-is-appr
>> oved-2010-07-15-1.266820
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> Subheading says: "Currency becomes fifth in the world to have a distinct
> identity". Hmm, silly me, I thought each currency (nearly 300 of them
> worldwide, going by ISO currency codes) had a "distinct identity".
>
> Even when just looking at currency symbols, then many of them are used for
> more than one currency and even just counting the number of currency
> symbols, there are a lot more than four already...
>
> /Kent K
>
>> Hope it gets into the Unicode soon
>> like $ etc.,
>>
>> N. Ganesan
>>
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