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

From: Jonathan Rosenne (jr@qsm.co.il)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2010 - 04:25:28 CDT

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    I had thought that the glyphs were not part of the UNICODE or ISO 10646
    standards and only serve as a reference.

    See the Disclaimer in http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch17.pdf.

    Jony

    > -----Original Message-----
    > From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
    > Behalf Of Michael Everson
    > Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:53 AM
    > To: unicode Unicode Discussion
    > Subject: Re: Indian Rupee Sign (U+20B9) proposal
    >
    > On 29 Jul 2010, at 04:43, Tulasi wrote:
    >
    > >> It is good that M. Everson's proposal and Govt. of India proposal
    > are converging.
    > >
    > > No its not good!
    >
    > I'm so sorry to disappoint you.
    >
    > > M. Everson's proposal be withdrawn, he rushed hastily.
    >
    > No, I didn't.
    >
    > > His font design is out of his mind, not from the drawing.
    >
    > That's because my font design takes a Times-like Latin R as the basis
    > for the design.
    >
    > > He cut left vertical bar of English alphabet "R" from an existing TTF
    > font, then place two rectangler bar in parallel :-')
    >
    > Yes, indeed I did. And this is just what we do for the EURO SIGN (a C
    > with bars), the YEN SIGN (a Y with bars) and so on. See
    > http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/euroglyph.html for example.
    >
    > > This is not what it is in the drawing or JPG image.
    >
    > That's because what THEY did was to take an Arial-like Latin R as the
    > basis for the design.
    >
    > > Enlarge both in PDF, see yourself before encouraging. ISO technical
    > committee shall place it on "Currency block" only to keep stuff
    > uniform.
    >
    > No. We will put it in the "Currency Symbols" block because the
    > character does not belong to either the Devanagari or the Latin script.
    > Please note that all of the referene glyphs
    >
    > > You may not like my critic ->
    >
    > Since you ask, I (for my part) do not like an attitude of wilfully
    > antagonistic hostility, particularly when it is pointless.
    >
    > > I do not see any Unicode role on India Rupee symbol :)
    >
    > It doesn't really matter. Though the Government of India have put
    > forward a proposal.
    >
    > > ISO will approve it anyway.
    >
    > You'd better hope so.
    >
    > Have a nice day,
    > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
    >
    >



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