Am 23.05.2012 um 16:05 schrieb William_J_G Overington: > Well, if a new currency symbol is needed quickly, wherever, and printed price > labels with the new symbol printed upon them and bank account statements with > the new symbol printed upon them are needed, how exactly is that to be done? > I suggest that it is either by prompt action by the Unicode Technical > Committee and the ISO Committee, or else some other encoding will become > used, simply because there will be printed results that are needed. I can > imagine that the fontmakers who make the fonts will want to use an official > code point if they can, yet if one is not available, then they will need to > make fonts anyway and a Private Use Area solution would be the then least > inconvenience-causing for the future. > > Would it be reasonable to have an update to the Currency Symbols block in an > almost-ready-to-go state in case a situation arises where a new currency > symbol is produced and urgent need arises for fonts so that as smooth a > transition as possible can take place?
There is no urgend need for implementing the TURKISH LIRA. There may be *a need arising*, but that is something different. For cases like this, a temporary PUA solution in fonts would be the worst possible option, causing extra stability issues for years to come. No one wants to face such a situation. The implementation of the € sign years ago was a borderline challange for those font vendors with large stock to upgrade. We can’t do this year by year, when anywhere in the world national pride gives birth to a new symbol of domestic prosperity. The usual terms of UCS upgrading works well enough for this. As long as font support for a certain character has not grown to a critical volume (system typefaces!), text processing with that sign implemented will remain a risky game. For those who care: fontographers already face the likely outcome of this and started to pull the chestnuts out of the fire. –> http://typophile.com/node/90604 Andreas Stötzner. _____________________________________________________________________ Andreas Stötzner Gestaltung Signographie Fontentwicklung Wilhelm-Plesse-Straße 32, 04157 Leipzig 0152-08336058
