Typophile - Unicode 5: no Ruble yet - Comments

As far as I know, the new

oprion — Mon, 7 Apr 2008 11:55:32 -0700

As far as I know, the new Ruble sign is basically just a local initiative of two private studios (ArtLebedev and Paratype) and is rather unlikely to become an official symbol. Reserving a place in Unicode seems a bit hasty.
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At least there are some

cuttlefish — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 14:40:27 -0700

At least there are some codepoints left in the currency symbols page. One could put the Ruble mark in the next available one and correct it later if it gets assigned elsewhere or if the official design changes from what appears to be the leading candidate.

No, it’s already a virtual

paul d hunt — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 14:33:18 -0700

No, it’s already a virtual character:
http://www.paratype.ru/cinfo/news.asp?NewsId=78

and in English? :^P
seeing that no one (not least of all the Russian Central Bank) actually uses this symbol, i’ll give an answer to my own question. it’s too early to encode a ruble symbol which has no currency. (sorry for the pun)

The euro already has a

charles_e — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 14:10:33 -0700

The euro already has a codepoint. If they just wait a bit, they can have the U.S. dollar codepoint ;-)

— or not, I guess we may need it for historical purposes, as a placeholder for wisea$$, etc. . . .

I believe the Sputnik

sii — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 14:00:09 -0700

I believe the Sputnik codepoint is the ideal place for a hack encoded symbol - Oops Apple already took it for the euro. ;-)

Unicode mailing list from

sii — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:58:48 -0700

Unicode mailing list from last month...

http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicode-ml/y2008-m03/index.html

No, it’s already a virtual

Nick Shinn — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 13:15:25 -0700

No, it’s already a virtual character:
http://www.paratype.ru/cinfo/news.asp?NewsId=78

wouldn’t you think that

paul d hunt — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:41:09 -0700

wouldn’t you think that was jumping the gun a bit?

Unicode 5: no Ruble yet

Nick Shinn — Sun, 6 Apr 2008 12:26:47 -0700

The Ruble symbol design presently being promoted by several parties in the design trade hasn’t yet passed muster with Unicode, neither having been accepted by an official institution, nor having become demonstrably widespread in vernacular usage (aszszelp).

Could a code number have been assigned, even if there is not yet an officially sanctioned glyph form?