Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?
Actually, while it's quite probable that the sign won't be used by any other currency, I believe there would be no way to prevent that. Cf. the usage of $ all over the world. I believe, other nations using a rupee _could_ adopt it. Having all that said, I don't believe though, as all recent movements of changing currency symbols aim at establishing a unique identity. Adopting a foreign country's sign would not fulfill this goal. /Sz On Thu, Jul 29, 2010 at 4:42 PM, Shriramana Sharma wrote: > Thanks all for responding. Of course it was my mistake to forget that there > are other countries using the Rupee currency. Maybe the new character will > be named the INDIAN RUPEE SIGN to underline the fact that this sign is only > for India. > >
Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?
Thanks all for responding. Of course it was my mistake to forget that there are other countries using the Rupee currency. Maybe the new character will be named the INDIAN RUPEE SIGN to underline the fact that this sign is only for India. -- Shriramana Sharma
Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?
"Alex Plantema" wrote: > Other countries have a currency named rupee as well. They keep using 20A8. And this is exactly what the Indian governement wants to avoid: a confusion about which currency 20A8 represents. They want a unique character that will ONLY be interpreted as the INDIAN Rupee. And for that purpose, they designed a unique glyph, which should also have a unique encoding, forbidding any glyph variations that could represent another non-Indian rupee. This is important for pricing purposes, notably now with frequent cross-border trading, and list-pricing. It's true that in India itself, there are also several other Rupee signs (depending on the script), but this is certinaly causing confusion on India, because some of them are also shared by other nearby countries, with which India has very frequent trades, or simply in shops with cross-border visitors. May be India will decide that the official public list-pricings (in street shops/markets, or online) should ONLY use the new symbol, or on payment check forms, excluding all other symbols (except possibly the international ISO 639 symbol INR) for legal trading. It's curious that India did not even decide to rename its currency at the same time, to give it an even more unique identity. (That's what the European Union decided, to avoid the confusion with the previous multiple "basket currencies", like "ECU", adopting instead the term "Euro" which was never used in any past currency, but also because there still remains some "basket currencies", sometimes named "ECU" in private currency trading platforms, and which are not officially quoted but computed as weighted indexes between the Euro and other EU currencies which are still not in the EMU; note that even the ECB and the EU Commission defines such European currency index for statistical purposes only). Philippe.
Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?
Op wo 28 juli 2010 11:22 schreef Shriramana Sharma: > This is a somewhat late mail and please forgive me if this question has > already been asked but there are too many hits for 20A8 Rupee when > searching through the lists. Isn't it possible to just change the glyph > of 20A8? To my knowledge, few people actually use 20A8 to display the > existing representative glyph. > > The Rupee sign is what it is -- the sign of India's currency. The > character 20A8 encodes that sign. If the Indian Govt decides to change > the glyph (in fact it is only now *deciding* on a glyph) then the same > character should be maintained with only the glyph changed, no? Other countries have a currency named rupee as well. They keep using 20A8. -- Alex.
Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?
On 28/07/10 10:22, Shriramana Sharma wrote: This is a somewhat late mail and please forgive me if this question has already been asked but there are too many hits for 20A8 Rupee when searching through the lists. Isn't it possible to just change the glyph of 20A8? To my knowledge, few people actually use 20A8 to display the existing representative glyph. The Rupee sign is what it is -- the sign of India's currency. The character 20A8 encodes that sign. If the Indian Govt decides to change the glyph (in fact it is only now *deciding* on a glyph) then the same character should be maintained with only the glyph changed, no? Unfortunately, that would have undesirable side effects, since there's more than one currency called the "rupee", and presumably some significant number of documents using that symbol: changing the generic rupee sign to look like the Indian rupee sign would make them all appear, misleadingly, to refer to the Indian rupee. There's also the issue of canonical decomposition: the "₨" sign clearly looks like LATIN CAPITAL LETTER R, LATIN SMALL LETTER S -- the Indian rupee sign does not like anything of the sort. -- Neil
Re: Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?
Shriramana Sharma said on Wed, Jul 28, 2010 at 02:52:46PM +0530,: > This is a somewhat late mail and please forgive me if this question > has already been asked but there are too many hits for 20A8 Rupee > when searching through the lists. Isn't it possible to just change > the glyph of 20A8? To my knowledge, few people actually use 20A8 to > display the existing representative glyph. This was asked earlier (including me). And was answered. > The Rupee sign is what it is -- the sign of India's currency. The There is a serious misunderstanding there. At least six other countries have named their currency "Rupee:. > character 20A8 encodes that sign. If the Indian Govt decides to Yes and nw. That character should display as "R s" in a font without that glyph. And a country may not want to use the Indian symbol in place of that sign. And AFAIK, none of Indian fonts (as available on GNU/Linux) distros have that symbol. And None of Indian Locales as available on most linux distros use that symbol - they use the INR or plain Rs. (I may be wrong here - feel free to thwack me if I am actually wrong). > change the glyph (in fact it is only now *deciding* on a glyph) then > the same character should be maintained with only the glyph changed, It certainly not a glyph change. I would have agreed with you 3 weeks back, but not now. -- Mahesh T. Pai || http://[paivakil|fizzard].blogspot.com A closed mouth gathers no feet.
Why not just change the glyph of 20A8 RUPEE SIGN?
This is a somewhat late mail and please forgive me if this question has already been asked but there are too many hits for 20A8 Rupee when searching through the lists. Isn't it possible to just change the glyph of 20A8? To my knowledge, few people actually use 20A8 to display the existing representative glyph. The Rupee sign is what it is -- the sign of India's currency. The character 20A8 encodes that sign. If the Indian Govt decides to change the glyph (in fact it is only now *deciding* on a glyph) then the same character should be maintained with only the glyph changed, no? -- Shriramana Sharma
