Re: Indian Rupee Sign (U+20B9) proposal

From: Philippe Verdy (verdy_p@wanadoo.fr)
Date: Mon Jul 19 2010 - 17:57:50 CDT

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    "Tulasi" <tulasird@gmail.com> wrote:
    >
    > > there is no reason why both Unicode and
    > > ISO could not nor should not conduct an e-mail vote on
    > > Michael's proposal and be done with it.
    >
    > I do not recommend haste/rush.
    > Michael has uploaded the proposal at mid-night 23:39 HRS.
    > What if there were other proposals submitted to Unicode on that day?
    > Submitted none is great!
    > If not I am afraid, it will raise questions on Unicode's professional-moral.

    As long as both the Unicode TC and the ISO WG agree to not allocate
    any other character than this one on U+20B9, this is all what is
    needed: there is no risk of desynchronization, and there's no
    emergency to publish a complete synchronized version of the
    repertoires.

    Other things like character properties may be anticipated by Unicode
    (and does not require any agreement with ISO's WG for most
    properties); only the name and the code point to reserve in the
    existing block is needed.

    The final vote for approving the representative glyph will require
    first getting an agreement with the Indian governement that still owns
    the exclusive design, until it approves its use by the public and
    implementation in fonts and keyboard layouts, and there's no emergency
    to synchronize all the rest of the pending proposals waiting for a
    final ballot.

    Getting such approval for preservation can be made very fast for this
    single character, this is not changing the current practices or the
    character encoding model as it will be completely simialr to the EURO
    SIGN, or the more recently encoded CEDI SIGN or TENGE SIGN or HRYVNIA
    SIGN.

    The final vote will still be needed (and the formal authorization /
    open licencing from India for what is still *their* glyph) in order to
    allow updated fonts to be distributed containing the glyph in any
    position (even if they are built early withing private proprietary
    agreements under restrictive "preview" agreements, including if those
    preview fonts are mapping the glyph as a PUA, to make sure that it
    won't be distributed to the public.

    Anyway, Michael has probably not even defined a new font, or updated
    its own fonts for that glyph, and could just have embedde a simple
    SVG-rendered or bitmap image in the PDF proposal, without even hinting
    it for various small resolutions like in OpenType fonts (this is not
    needed for preparing the proposal).

    There is enough time for refining the glyph before the synchronization
    of repertoires in later versions of ISO 10646 an Unicode.

    -- Philippe.



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