From: Tulasi (tulasird@gmail.com)
Date: Fri Jul 16 2010 - 05:37:22 CDT
Really quick! Like war time :-')
How long it took for you to write this proposal?
And what time have you uploaded to
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/ ?
Nice job!
Tulasi
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:24:50 +0100
Subject: Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol
To: Indic Discussion List <indic@unicode.org>, Unicode Mailing List
<unicode@unicode.org>
I am writing up the proposal to encode it.
From: Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com>
Date: Fri, 16 Jul 2010 08:34:24 +0100
Subject: Re: [indic] Indian Rupee symbol
To: Indic Discussion List <indic@unicode.org>, Unicode Mailing List
<unicode@unicode.org>
A proposal to add the character to the Unicode Standard and ISO/IEC
10646 was published yesterday. See
http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3862.pdf
I have asked the representatives of the Government of India to the
Consortium if they would like to revise the proposal into a joint
India/Ireland proposal, but in case there could be delays because of
the bureaucracy, I thought it was important to get the standardization
process started as soon as possible. It should be a matter of urgency
that a stable code position be selected for this new character lest a
variety of non-standard practices be adopted.
The EURO SIGN, some of you may remember, was similarly urgent. And
subsequently currency signs like the Ukrainian HRYVNIA SIGN and Kazakh
TENGE SIGN were created. For those last two, there seems to have been
no consideration taken of matters of computer encoding. At least in
the Indian Press they are talking about Unicode and fonts and
keyboards. :-)
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
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