From: Jonathan Rosenne (jr@qsm.co.il)
Date: Thu Jul 29 2010 - 04:25:28 CDT
I had thought that the glyphs were not part of the UNICODE or ISO 10646
standards and only serve as a reference.
See the Disclaimer in http://www.unicode.org/versions/Unicode5.2.0/ch17.pdf.
Jony
> -----Original Message-----
> From: unicode-bounce@unicode.org [mailto:unicode-bounce@unicode.org] On
> Behalf Of Michael Everson
> Sent: Thursday, July 29, 2010 10:53 AM
> To: unicode Unicode Discussion
> Subject: Re: Indian Rupee Sign (U+20B9) proposal
>
> On 29 Jul 2010, at 04:43, Tulasi wrote:
>
> >> It is good that M. Everson's proposal and Govt. of India proposal
> are converging.
> >
> > No its not good!
>
> I'm so sorry to disappoint you.
>
> > M. Everson's proposal be withdrawn, he rushed hastily.
>
> No, I didn't.
>
> > His font design is out of his mind, not from the drawing.
>
> That's because my font design takes a Times-like Latin R as the basis
> for the design.
>
> > He cut left vertical bar of English alphabet "R" from an existing TTF
> font, then place two rectangler bar in parallel :-')
>
> Yes, indeed I did. And this is just what we do for the EURO SIGN (a C
> with bars), the YEN SIGN (a Y with bars) and so on. See
> http://www.evertype.com/standards/euro/euroglyph.html for example.
>
> > This is not what it is in the drawing or JPG image.
>
> That's because what THEY did was to take an Arial-like Latin R as the
> basis for the design.
>
> > Enlarge both in PDF, see yourself before encouraging. ISO technical
> committee shall place it on "Currency block" only to keep stuff
> uniform.
>
> No. We will put it in the "Currency Symbols" block because the
> character does not belong to either the Devanagari or the Latin script.
> Please note that all of the referene glyphs
>
> > You may not like my critic ->
>
> Since you ask, I (for my part) do not like an attitude of wilfully
> antagonistic hostility, particularly when it is pointless.
>
> > I do not see any Unicode role on India Rupee symbol :)
>
> It doesn't really matter. Though the Government of India have put
> forward a proposal.
>
> > ISO will approve it anyway.
>
> You'd better hope so.
>
> Have a nice day,
> Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
>
>
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