Andreas, Asmus, let me have my two coins as well...
> > > The Turks did not present “a new symbol”. They presented a new design
> > > for an existing symbol (₤) which stands in for an existing currency.
>
> > A new design makes it a new symbol. Especially a radical new design.
>
> What makes a sym
How about using U+3082? ?
?
~mark
On 5/22/2012 4:10 PM, Benjamin M Scarborough wrote:
(Personally, I don't understand the current hubbub about inventing new
currency signs, but whatever.) —Ben Scarborough
Currency symbol envy, pure and simple.
The Euro started it - it was intended to challenge pound and dollar,
that was prob
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On May 23, 2012 4:02 AM, "Andreas Stötzner" wrote:
> For the ₤ we can define EXACTLY what it is: a scriptive capital Latin L
with a double crossbar, in this very combination standing in for the term
“Lira” (derived from Latin “libra”), meaning a monetary unit of that sa
On May 22, 2012, at 08:18, Shriramana Sharma wrote:
> Any reason why the glyph of the current existing character 20A4 ₤ LIRA
> SIGN could not have been changed instead? The glyph is similar to that
> of 00A3 £ POUND SIGN, and 20A4 was *anyway* not used in favour of
> 00A3, so it's not as if any oth
Am 22.05.2012 um 22:36 schrieb Asmus Freytag:
> This came out of an offline discussion, but I answered this in some
> detail and think it's useful to have this associated with the discussion
> on the list.
>
> A./
– it should have gone to the list, my fault –.
>
>
> On 5/22/2012 12:40 AM, An
On Tue, 22 May 2012 08:33:43 -0700
Markus Scherer wrote:
> On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Richard Wordingham <
> richard.wording...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:07:33 -0700
> > Markus Scherer wrote:
> > > I can dig up the ICU code that computes the
> > > collation case b
This came out of an offline discussion, but I answered this in some
detail and think it's useful to have this associated with the discussion
on the list.
A./
On 5/22/2012 12:40 AM, Andreas Stötzner wrote:
Am 22.05.2012 um 07:13 schrieb Asmus Freytag:
There is an early precedent, going back
On 5/22/2012 2:23 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 22 May 2012, at 08:11, Andreas Stötzner wrote:
Am 22.05.2012 um 00:22 schrieb Michael Everson:
If Greece ceases to use the euro and uses the drachma instead, and if they
create any kind of symbol for it, I think whatever glyph is devised will be
On 5/22/2012 2:22 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 22 May 2012, at 06:13, Asmus Freytag wrote:
Before this discussion deep ends.
There is an early precedent, going back to the Euro sign, of Unicode adding a new
character instead of "repurposing" any existing character that may seem to be
unused
On 5/22/2012 2:22 AM, Michael Everson wrote:
On 22 May 2012, at 06:51, Erkki I Kolehmainen wrote:
In line with what was decided for the EURO SIGN (20AC) vs. the EURO-CURRENCY
SIGN (20A0), I find it difficult to agree with Michael on the speculative
question of any possibly emerging new Greek
From: Shriramana Sharma [mailto:samj...@gmail.com]
> Any reason why the glyph of the current existing character 20A4 ₤ LIRA SIGN
> could not have been changed instead? The glyph is similar to that of 00A3 £
> POUND SIGN, and 20A4 was *anyway* not used in favour of 00A3...
In addition to Asmus'
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 1:09 AM, Richard Wordingham <
richard.wording...@ntlworld.com> wrote:
> On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:07:33 -0700
> Markus Scherer wrote:
>
> > In principle, it's straightforward: Lowercase and uppercase follow
> > Unicode (UCD) case properties. We distinguish an intermediate "mi
On Sun, 20 May 2012, Michael Everson wrote:
>> - kh with *continuous* underline (romanization of U+0959) ?
>
> No. Whose romanization is that?
http://www.loc.gov/catdir/cpso/romanization/hindi.pdf
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/stone-catend/trimain3.htm
> I always wondered about the strange Drachma glyph in the standard: a
> Latin script D connected to a greek rho.
>
What you identify as a "Latin script D" is probably also a "Greek script
D". cf. also the Cyrillic script D, which coincides with the Latin, even
though the roman (and even printed
On 22 May 2012, at 08:11, Andreas Stötzner wrote:
Am 22.05.2012 um 00:22 schrieb Michael Everson:
>
>> If Greece ceases to use the euro and uses the drachma instead, and if they
>> create any kind of symbol for it, I think whatever glyph is devised will be
>> applied to the existing character.
>
On 22 May 2012, at 06:51, Erkki I Kolehmainen wrote:
> In line with what was decided for the EURO SIGN (20AC) vs. the EURO-CURRENCY
> SIGN (20A0), I find it difficult to agree with Michael on the speculative
> question of any possibly emerging new Greek currency.
The ECU was not really the same
On 22 May 2012, at 06:13, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> Before this discussion deep ends.
>
> There is an early precedent, going back to the Euro sign, of Unicode adding a
> new character instead of "repurposing" any existing character that may seem
> to be unused.
>
> The principle there is, that un
On 22 May 2012, at 01:47, Doug Ewell wrote:
> I think Peter was talking about the Turkish lira sign, not the Greek drachma
> sign.
My mistake.
Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
On Mon, 21 May 2012 17:07:33 -0700
Markus Scherer wrote:
> In principle, it's straightforward: Lowercase and uppercase follow
> Unicode (UCD) case properties. We distinguish an intermediate "mixed
> case" for titlecase characters and mixed-case contractions. I believe
> we also distinguish small/
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 12:41 PM, Andreas Stötzner wrote:
>
> Am 22.05.2012 um 00:22 schrieb Michael Everson:
>
> If Greece ceases to use the euro and uses the drachma instead, and if they
> create any kind of symbol for it, I think whatever glyph is devised will be
> applied to the existing chara
Am 22.05.2012 um 00:22 schrieb Michael Everson:
> If Greece ceases to use the euro and uses the drachma instead, and if they
> create any kind of symbol for it, I think whatever glyph is devised will be
> applied to the existing character.
This is exactly what should be done with the Turkish L
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