From: Michael Everson (everson@evertype.com)
Date: Tue Jul 20 2010 - 05:30:31 CDT
On 20 Jul 2010, at 10:57, Siji Sunny wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 19, 2010 at 3:37 AM, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
> So you're saying they'd be better off just putting it at U+20B9? :-)
>
> With reference to the unicode Currency Chart, 4 Rupee Sign already been there, they are
> 20A8 Rs RUPEE SIGN
> 09F3 ৳ bengali rupee sign
> 0AF1 ૱ gujarati rupee sign
> 0BF9 ௹ tamil rupee sign
>
> Now as per Govt. Of India rupee sign has been standardised,
They devised a new character.
> So what will happens to the above mentioned glyphs and their unicode values?
Nothing. They will stay the same.
> Why can't use any of the unicode value for the new rupee sign?
Because it has a decomposition to Latin R plus Latin s.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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