On 23 May 2012, at 07:16, Szelp, A. Sz. wrote: > If you will have a U+20A4 LIRA SIGN _and_ a U+20BA TURKISH LIRA SIGN,
We have a RUPEE SIGN and an INDIAN RUPEE SIGN. > designers _will_have_to_ make a visual distinction between them, Yes, that's the intention. > forcing them to take on the poor design "official" design, not allowing them > to interpret creatively the sign like they did with the Euro to make it more > visually pleasing. Not true. A community of typographers is already discussing how to harmonize the new sign with fonts in the normal way. > Of course, if you buy "too quickly and too cheap", as Andreas put it, and > encode the new glyph variant of the Lira sign It's not. It's another glyph variant of the letter L. > which happens to be the one preferred for future Turkish banknotes and coins, > you open up Pandora's box by forcing a need for distinction, where there is — > as per status-quo — none. You have been warned :-) There is nothing new here. 2003-02-24 ₲ ₳ http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2579.pdf 2003-10-01 ؋ http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2640.pdf 2004-04-23 ₴ ₵ http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n2743.pdf 2008-03-06 ₷ http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3390.pdf 2008-03-06 ₸ http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3392.pdf 2010-02-10 ֏ ftp://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3771.pdf (KP) 2010-07-19 ₹ http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n3862.pdf 2012-04-17 ₺ http://std.dkuug.dk/jtc1/sc2/wg2/docs/n4258.pdf Michael Everson * http://www.evertype.com/
