Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

From: Leo Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com)
Date: Sun Jun 27 2010 - 17:45:43 CDT

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    On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Tulasi <tulasird@gmail.com> wrote:
    > 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?

    http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/211e/index.htm

    PRESCRIPTION TAKE
    recipe
    cross ratio

    Another question nobody had asked so far in this thread is what will happen to

    U+20A8 RUPEE SIGN

    A country cannot reasonably expect that every modification of its
    currency symbol will be accommodated by a new BMP character, can it?

    Leo

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