Re: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-19 Thread Stefan Persson
Kenneth Whistler wrote: But if you pick up a pre-euro edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine, you can find the price listing on the front page, to wit: How are they abbreviating Danish crowns today, after the Euro became the currency of most other EU countries? Stefan

Re: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-19 Thread Michael Everson
At 17:15 -0800 2003-03-18, Kenneth Whistler wrote: But if you pick up a pre-euro edition of the Frankfurter Allgemeine, you can find the price listing on the front page, to wit: Belgien 60 bfrs/Dänemark 14 dkr/Finnl. 10 Fmk/Frankr. 11 F/... Ken... you KEPT one? :-) -- Michael Everson * * Everson

Re: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-19 Thread Mark Davis
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Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-18 Thread Lateef Sagar
Hi, For Rupees Rs. sign is used, and for Rupee Re. sign is used, where as in Unicode only onle code point is present for Rs. Shouldn't there be a separate place for Re. as well? = Lateef Sagar Shaikh KayosWorks [EMAIL PROTECTED] __ Do you

Re: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-18 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Lateef Sagar Shaikh asked: For Rupees Rs. sign is used, and for Rupee Re. sign is used, where as in Unicode only onle code point is present for Rs. Shouldn't there be a separate place for Re. as well? No. Rather than using U+20A8 RUPEE SIGN, ordinary typographic practice would just be to use

RE: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-18 Thread Andy White
I think that Lateef had a good question. If it can be shown that the Re sign is often depicted as a single ligature glyph, then I would say, yes, it is a candidate for inclusion as a separate currency sign. Andy Kenneth Whistler said: Lateef Sagar Shaikh asked: For Rupees Rs. sign is used,

Re: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-18 Thread Stefan Persson
Kenneth Whistler wrote: DM was widely used for Deutschmarks, dkr for Danish kroner, and so on before the switch to euros, for example. I've only seen Danish kroner abbreviated as kr or DKK, never as dkr. kr is the most common abbreviation in Denmark today; DKK is mostly used to distinguishing

Re: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-18 Thread Kenneth Whistler
Stefan wrote: Kenneth Whistler wrote: DM was widely used for Deutschmarks, dkr for Danish kroner, and so on before the switch to euros, for example. I've only seen Danish kroner abbreviated as kr or DKK, never as dkr. kr is the most common abbreviation in Denmark today; DKK is

Re: Re. and Rs. currency sign

2003-03-18 Thread David Starner
On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:45:43PM -, Andy White wrote: I think that Lateef had a good question. If it can be shown that the Re sign is often depicted as a single ligature glyph, then I would say, yes, it is a candidate for inclusion as a separate currency sign. Andy Kenneth Whistler