Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-07-02 Thread Tulasi
mbols? Do I just write "Copyright (c)"? Or do I need to do something else? Help please, Tulasi From: Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 07:55:20 +0200 Subject: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today To: Tulasi Cc: Unicode Discussion , ever...@evertype.com, christo

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-30 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20100701 00:06], Tulasi (tulas...@gmail.com) wrote: >How about I draw Rupee sign(s) if you guys back me up? Given how a lot of people participating on this mailinglist are not Indian people, I doubt our word will account for much. After all, in the end, it's ultimately a symbol for the Indian

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-30 Thread Tulasi
Thanks friends for explaining "Rx". I am confident, this "Rx" like Rupee symbol will not pass Indian Parliament :-') How about I draw Rupee sign(s) if you guys back me up? Tulasi From: Christopher Miller Date: Sun, 27 Jun 2010 18:36:11 -0400 Subject: Re: Indian Rupe

Re: charset parameter in Google Groups (was Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today)

2010-06-28 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 6/28/2010 11:38 AM, Mark Davis ☕ wrote: The problem with slavishly following the charset parameter is that it is often incorrect. However, the charset parameter is a signal into the character detection module, so the charset is correctly supplied from the message then the results of the d

RE: charset parameter in Google Groups (was Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today)

2010-06-28 Thread Doug Ewell
Mark Crispin wrote: > On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Mark Davis ☕ wrote: >> The problem with slavishly following the charset parameter is that it >> is often incorrect. However, the charset parameter is a signal into >> the character detection module, so the charset is correctly supplied >> from the messag

Re: charset parameter in Google Groups (was Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today)

2010-06-28 Thread Mark Crispin
On Mon, 28 Jun 2010, Mark Davis ☕ wrote: The problem with slavishly following the charset parameter is that it is often incorrect. However, the charset parameter is a signal into the character detection module, so the charset is correctly supplied from the message then the results of the detectio

RE: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-28 Thread John Dlugosz
> > I imagine that the Rs symbol (₨) is used outside of India. > > Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ > > Interestingly, the font being chosen for that character shows it to me as "Rp", not "Rs". That seems to be "Microsoft Sans Serif". It's also the case in Palatino Linotype and T

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-28 Thread Kent Karlsson
Den 2010-06-28 10.16, skrev "Michael Everson" : > On 28 Jun 2010, at 06:41, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > >> Mahesh T. Pai said on Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:57:53AM +0530,: >> >>> On a serious note - >>> >>> 1. Would a change of glypn / glyph shape be considered? > > It would depend on what is chosen

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-28 Thread Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven
-On [20100628 10:37], Michael Everson (ever...@evertype.com) wrote: >I imagine that the Rs symbol (₨) is used outside of India. CLDR shows that en_PK uses it. -- Jeroen Ruigrok van der Werven / asmodai イェルーン ラウフロック ヴァン デル ウェルヴェン http://www.in-nomine.org/ | http://www.rangaku.org/ | GPG: 2EAC625

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-28 Thread Michael Everson
Report of deferral: http://www.ptinews.com/news/740593_Cabinet-defers-decision-on-rupee-symbol Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-28 Thread Michael Everson
On 28 Jun 2010, at 06:41, Mahesh T. Pai wrote: > Mahesh T. Pai said on Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:57:53AM +0530,: > >> On a serious note - >> >> 1. Would a change of glypn / glyph shape be considered? It would depend on what is chosen by the Government, I should think. >> 2. What are the origins

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Mahesh T. Pai said on Mon, Jun 28, 2010 at 10:57:53AM +0530,: > On a serious note - > > 1. Would a change of glypn / glyph shape be considered? > > 2. What are the origins of that character? I feel that an answer is important, because the code chart specifically mentions this as the Indi

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-27 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Leo Broukhis said on Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 03:45:43PM -0700,: > Another question nobody had asked so far in this thread is what will happen > to > > U+20A8 RUPEE SIGN That is a Latin character, hence cannot denote the *Indian* rupee. See http://www.decodeunicode.org/u+20A8 On a serio

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-27 Thread Leo Broukhis
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 3:09 PM, Tulasi wrote: > Were there any from this group took part in the competition? > >> http://www.pluggd.in/indian-rupee-symbol-297/ >> I don't know if this is a joke or not, but none of those five is any good. > > Exactly! > >> Just so they don't choose one of the ones

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-27 Thread Christopher Miller
On 2010-06-27, at 6:09 PM, Tulasi wrote: > All looks close to sort of handwritten "Rx" > But what does "Rx" means? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_prescription Christopher Miller Montreal QC Canada

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-27 Thread Tulasi
Rx" > signs. All looks close to sort of handwritten "Rx" But what does "Rx" means? Tulasi From: John W Kennedy Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2010 15:13:14 -0400 Subject: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today To: Michael Everson Cc: unicode Unicode Discussion On Jun

Re: VS: Euro Sign in 8859-15 (was: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today)

2010-06-27 Thread Doug Ewell
"Philippe Verdy" wrote: When the Euro was added, there was no real need to modify the 8859 pages and this was not done. Traditionally the ISO/IEC 8859 code tables have not been modified. Instead, new parts were added, and this is what was done with 8859-15. -- Doug Ewell | Thornton, Colora

VS: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-27 Thread Erkki I Kolehmainen
...@unicode.org] Puolesta Tulasi Lähetetty: 27. kesäkuuta 2010 23:46 Vastaanottaja: Unicode Discussion Kopio: Mark Davis ☕ Aihe: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today > Even in the year 2010, the euro sign (¤) doesn't work reliably. He calls it brain-dead :-') http://groups.google.co.uk/

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-27 Thread Tulasi
5 June, 07:54 Subject: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today To: de.test On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, I wrote > Even in the year 2010, the euro sign (¤) doesn't work reliably. in both the Unicode list and in the newsgroup de.test. unicode.org shows a euro sign:http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unico

re: VS: Euro Sign in 8859-15 (was: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today)

2010-06-27 Thread Philippe Verdy
All the previous things about ISO 8859 is true, but if the Euro symbol had the success it has (and it works remarkably well) is that Windows is used on a lot of PCs : Microsoft modified its all its Windows code pages (unformally named "ANSI" due to the name of legacy Win16 APIs which were also port

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-26 Thread Asmus Freytag
On 6/26/2010 5:41 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: Regarding the inability to distinguish 8859-15 heuristically from 8859-1, I understand the problem when there are no tags or other hints, or for cases like Windows-1252 text declared to be 8859-1, but it seems unlikely to me that there is much text enc

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-26 Thread Doug Ewell
Mark Davis ☕ wrote: 1. The link "http://groups.google.co.uk/group/de.test/msg/e027e91e7ef17f62"; doesn't appear to go to a public page. What I'm guessing is that message was sent in Latin-15, which can't be reliably distinguished from Latin-1. (UTF-8 would be much better of course.) No gues

VS: Euro Sign in 8859-15 (was: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today)

2010-06-25 Thread Erkki I Kolehmainen
: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today) > On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, I wrote > > > Even in the year 2010, the euro sign (¤) doesn't work reliably. > > in both the Unicode list and in the newsgroup de.test. > > unicode.org shows a euro sign: > http://www.unicode.org/mai

Euro Sign in 8859-15 (was: Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today)

2010-06-25 Thread Kenneth Whistler
> On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, I wrote > > > Even in the year 2010, the euro sign (¤) doesn't work reliably. > > in both the Unicode list and in the newsgroup de.test. > > unicode.org shows a euro sign: > http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m06/0372.html > > groups.google.com shows a cur

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-25 Thread Mark Davis ☕
1. The link "http://groups.google.co.uk/group/de.test/msg/e027e91e7ef17f62"; doesn't appear to go to a public page. What I'm guessing is that message was sent in Latin-15, which can't be reliably distinguished from Latin-1. (UTF-8 would be much better of course.) 2. I find it a bit over the top to

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Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-25 Thread Andreas Prilop
On Fri, 25 Jun 2010, I wrote > Even in the year 2010, the euro sign (€) doesn't work reliably. in both the Unicode list and in the newsgroup de.test. unicode.org shows a euro sign: http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2010-m06/0372.html groups.google.com shows a currency sign: http://gr

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-25 Thread Andreas Prilop
On Thu, 24 Jun 2010, Leo Broukhis wrote: > "a privilege (unique identity) available only to major currencies > like dollar, euro, pound, sterling and yen." Even in the year 2010, the euro sign (€) doesn't work reliably. -- From the New World: http://www.google.co.uk/search?ie=ISO-8859-2&q=Dvo

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-25 Thread Michael Everson
Apparently the Indian Cabinet has "deferred" a decision on the Rupee sign. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-25 Thread Michael Everson
There is still no official Ruble sign... but a grass-roots campaign begun in 2007 seems to be be making some headway. A number of font companies are shipping fonts with a ruble sign in them which seems to be being used in the wild. http://www.artlebedev.com/mandership/159/ I've written Lebedev

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-25 Thread Mahesh T. Pai
Michael Everson said on Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 07:07:49PM +0100,: > http://www.pluggd.in/indian-rupee-symbol-297/ > > I don't know if this is a joke or not, but none of those five is any good. Does not seem like one. But it is strange that there is no mention of it in any .gov.in sites. (but th

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-24 Thread SS
uot; Sent: 24 June 2010 19:16 Subject: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today Some losers: http://in.yfittopostblog.com/2010/06/24/rupees-new-avatar/ Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/ <>

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-24 Thread Leo Broukhis
On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 11:07 AM, Michael Everson wrote: > http://www.pluggd.in/indian-rupee-symbol-297/ "a privilege (unique identity) available only to major currencies like dollar, euro, pound, sterling and yen." I don't know if this is a joke or not. Leo

Re: Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-24 Thread John W Kennedy
On Jun 24, 2010, at 2:07 PM, Michael Everson wrote: > http://www.pluggd.in/indian-rupee-symbol-297/ > > I don't know if this is a joke or not, but none of those five is any good. It's no joke; even I, a Yank with no connections on the subcontinent, have been aware of the competition for some tim

Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Everson
Some losers: http://in.yfittopostblog.com/2010/06/24/rupees-new-avatar/ Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/

Indian Rupee Sign to be chosen today

2010-06-24 Thread Michael Everson
http://www.pluggd.in/indian-rupee-symbol-297/ I don't know if this is a joke or not, but none of those five is any good. Evidently there is a desire to merge Latin R and Devanagari RA and then add stripes. Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/