On Tue, Mar 18, 2003 at 10:45:43PM -0000, 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 said: > > 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?
And the answer was basically, Rs. shouldn't have been encoded, and that if they encoded Re., then they would need to encode DM and a bunch of other currency units too, which they have no plans of doing so. -- David Starner - [EMAIL PROTECTED] Einstein once said that it would be hard to teach in a co-ed college since guys were only looking on girls and not listening to the teacher. He was objected that they would be listening to _him_ very attentively, forgetting about any girls. But such guys won't be worth teaching, replied the great man.
