Re: Ruble symbol?

Hi!

> Because I haven't written a proposal for it

The above is more appropriate as:

'Because a proposal hasn't been submitted yet'

Regards,

Anbu Kaveeswarar Selvaraju

On Sat, 2 Jun 2012 20:01:26 +0100, Michael Everson
<everson_at_evertype.com> wrote:
> On 2 Jun 2012, at 19:49, Jean-François Colson wrote:
>
>> At http://store.artlebedev.com/electronics/optimus-popularis/ I see a
>> price in rubles, 31,500 р, where the currency is written р (Cyrillic
r).
>> But that р is displayed as a capital Р (Cyrillic R) with stroke.
>> I’ve never been in Russia. That’s why I have a few questions:
>> Is that symbol is in everyday use?
>
> We don't know.
>
>> Is it common?
>
> We don't know.
>
>> Is it new?
>
> Not very; at least one font vendor has been making it available for some
> time.
>
>> Why doesn’t Unicode support it yet?
>
> Because I haven't written a proposal for it because so far it does not
> appear that any of the banking authorities or the Russian Finance
Ministry
> supports it.
>
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
Received on Sat Jun 02 2012 - 15:37:26 CDT