Wednesday, July 28, 2010

Indian Rupee Character In Danger Stage !!!

So...
Finally we got the Sign for Indian Rupee. He is the Indian Creative Person Mr. D Udaya Kumar, who designed this font.

We salute his Creativity to Design such nice thing and giving Indian Currency an Identity.

We were discussing about the font availability of this Symbol.
One thing which hit my mind... Which Keyboard Character it will replace. The Indian Firm "Foradian Technologies" has designed a Nice Font for Rupee Symbol and assigned to U+0060 which is replacing existing "`" sign (Left Side to 1). As far as I am concern, that great thing as we are using "`" for almost nothing. But what about the Unicode Approval? We can say as this is temporary arrangement till Unicode will approve this.

While Googling, I found the application form is already submitted for Adding Rs. symbol to Fonts. You can find it on This Link.
Thats the Great thing. Someone has taken the initiative. 
Guess who??? Indian or...?

Right... He is not Indian. He is Mr. Michael Everson
And no single application has gone from Indian. 

He has been actively involved in the encoding of many scripts in the Unicode and ISO/IEC 10646 standards

We will appreciate his efforts... 
But...
Is it the Initiative or something else?

If you will go-through the Application form, the Position proposed for the Character is U+20B9, which is completely different from what "Foradian Technologies" has designed U+0060.

Which is the Better Position? Removing "`" from Keyboard and putting Rs. Symbol or this one?

If Michael's application is getting approved then what will happen to the font designed by "Foradian Technologies"?

The result will be...
We will not have Special Keyboard Key to insert our Rupee Character.

OR one more way is that, Keyboard manufacturer should include one more Kay for Rs. Symbol.

Will YOU accept this???

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