money is a very funny thing. if you discover you have a fake or a torn note in your pocket along with a perfectly legit and crisp one, you'd be tempted to use the first one immediately.
people talk about the relative worthlessness of a small denomination, especially if it is heavily soiled. that is, until you drop it on the street and watch how suddenly and swiftly it disappears. the new rupee symbol will first make it to coins and currency-notes, and as pointed out by others, in use by the media and press, so dedicated unicode code-point or not, this thing is here to stay. the digital-world may take its own sweet time for acceptance at its own peril. we may have our issues with proprietary font-standards, and with font-use licenses, with font-encoding standards, but this is going to be one ugly mess. end-users are already going to accept the glyph, literally at face-value, etched and embossed on coins, printed on bank documents, used in advertising and sales. the semantics should be sorted out by the Year 2038, hopefully, beyond which we would probably have bigger problems to worry about. regards niyam _______________________________________________ Ilugd mailing list Ilugd@lists.linux-delhi.org http://frodo.hserus.net/mailman/listinfo/ilugd
