D.V. Henkel-Wallace wrote:
> At 16:03 2001-04-04 +0200, Marco Cimarosti wrote:
>
> > U+20A5 (MILL SIGN): which currency is so worthy to
> require a special
> >symbol for 1/1000?
> >
> >And it is also true for many currency symbols in other blocks:
> >
> > U+00A4 (CURRENCY SIGN): who ever used this?
>
> Both are (/were ?) used in banking; MILL for basis points.
> Next time you fly, peek at the reservation screen and you'll see the
> currency symbol overloaded there too.
> I still read books that use shillings and half crowns; should
> I excise that now-obsolete system of my childhood?
Perhaps I didn't make my point: I was not discussing whether those symbols
have to be in Unicode or not.
Of course obsolete currency symbols *are* necessary -- at least until the
last electronic contract, payroll, or retirement record using that symbol
exists.
(For what concerns the Lira Symbol, please don't remove it until my last
wills are open. I don't want my heirs to inherit a few millions question
marks. :-)
I was rather meaning that many of the characters in the Currency Symbols
block have only a legacy significance, and thus, Roozbeh's Rial sign could
stay in that block too.
_ Marco
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