Joking aside, the ruble sign is intended as a character adaptable to
Western-style typefaces (roman/italic, serif/sanserif, etc), and U+0554
doesn't easily lend itself to that.
Out of the five "finalists" (shown here:
http://lenta.ru/news/2013/11/05/symbol/) the winner satisfies that
criterion the best.
Leo
On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Roozbeh Pournader <roozbeh_at_google.com>wrote:
> Fortunately, we have it already encoded at U+0554 ;-)
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Leo Broukhis <leob_at_mailcom.com> wrote:
>
>> The board of directors of the Central Bank of Russia has [finally]
>> approved the de facto standard ruble sign.
>>
>> http://lenta.ru/news/2013/12/11/symbol/
>>
>> Leo
>>
>
>
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