Talk:Currency (typography)
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Removed the "₨" (U+20A8, RUPEE SIGN) example symbol. There are a few different rupee symbols in Unicode, but anyone who uses "Rs" or "Rp" spells it out rather than using "¤" (U+00A4, CURRENCY SIGN) if their font doesn't happen to have the ligature. --67.183.217.186 23:07, 8 May 2006 (UTC)
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[edit] Sources:
- name and code:
- SGML entity: http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/sgml/entities.html#sym
- usage:
- for OCR deletion: http://politiken.dk/VisArtikel.iasp?PageID=379961. Danish quote: "¤ slettede den foregående karakter. ¤¤ slettede bagud indtil førstkommende ordmellemrum. ¤¤¤ slettede hele linjen. Sletning derudover krævede manuel sammenkrølning af manuskriptarket og henkastning i papirkurv, husker Leif Jonasson."
[edit] Stub
Isn't this a stub? What does the symbol mean, etc.
[edit] origin
Who made this up and when? -lysdexia 12:18, 24 October 2006 (UTC)
[edit] Examples
I would like to see an example of how this symbol has been/is being used. As it was suggested as an replacement for the dollar sign, I would assume it is being used somewhat like this:
¤50 NOK —Preceding unsigned comment added by 88.89.56.111 (talk) 21:25, 27 December 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Pre-existing use of the symbol in Scandinavia prevented its adoption as the EUR symbol
I recall, but have no sources for, there being an issue with Scandanavian use of the symbol for an important pre-existing use. So, although Apple and SUN tried to replace it by the € glyph, strong opposition from Scandinavia stopped it being accepted. Does anyone have any information about that to add to the article? Were they using that glyph specifically or were they just using the upper 128 character set for their additional symbols? (Of course it was all overtaken by Unicode and the practice of trying to hammer anything and everything into 256-64 slots came to an end). --Red King (talk) 16:16, 21 March 2008 (UTC)
