Joking aside, the ruble sign is intended as a character adaptable to Western-style typefaces (roman/italic, serif/sanserif, etc), and U+0554 doesn't easily lend itself to that. Out of the five "finalists" (shown here: http://lenta.ru/news/2013/11/05/symbol/) the winner satisfies that criterion the best.
Leo On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 8:14 AM, Roozbeh Pournader <rooz...@google.com>wrote: > Fortunately, we have it already encoded at U+0554 ;-) > > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 7:51 AM, Leo Broukhis <l...@mailcom.com> wrote: > >> The board of directors of the Central Bank of Russia has [finally] >> approved the de facto standard ruble sign. >> >> http://lenta.ru/news/2013/12/11/symbol/ >> >> Leo >> > >
