Re: Iranian Rial sign proposal

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sharif.edu)
Date: Wed Apr 04 2001 - 06:34:26 EDT


On Tue, 3 Apr 2001, Michael (michka) Kaplan wrote:

> Like Doug, I am a little curious as to the decision on where the symbol
> would go... would you really want it in the presentation forms that are
> merely for backwards compatibility? I think there are two options for
> currency symbols:

But it's only for backward compatiblity...

> 1) In the curreny Symbols block if there is even the remotest chance that
> this might be a shared symbol, or

It won't be. It's nothing more than a rendering of word Rial, sometimes
narrower to fit in one column in fixed-width fonts. It doesn't have any
international use, because it may be mistaken by Saudi Arabic Rials or
things like that.

--roozbeh



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