From: Tulasi (tulasird@gmail.com)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2010 - 17:09:16 CDT
Were there any from this group took part in the competition?
> http://www.pluggd.in/indian-rupee-symbol-297/
> I don't know if this is a joke or not, but none of those five is any good.
Exactly!
> Just so they don't choose one of the ones that look dangerously like "Rx" signs.
All looks close to sort of handwritten "Rx"
But what does "Rx" means?
Tulasi
From: John W Kennedy <jwkenne@attglobal.net>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:13:14 -0400
Subject: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today
To: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion <unicode@unicode.org>
On Jun 24, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Michael Everson wrote:
> http://www.pluggd.in/indian-rupee-symbol-297/
>
> I don't know if this is a joke or not, but none of those five is any good.
It's no joke; even I, a Yank with no connections on the subcontinent,
have been aware of the competition for some time.
> Evidently there is a desire to merge Latin R and Devanagari RA and then add stripes.
Just so they don't choose one of the ones that look dangerously like "Rx" signs.
-- John W Kennedy "The bright critics assembled in this volume will doubtless show, in their sophisticated and ingenious new ways, that, just as /Pooh/ is suffused with humanism, our humanism itself, at this late date, has become full of /Pooh./" -- Frederick Crews. "Postmodern Pooh", Preface
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