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Why does it need a second horizontal line cutting across?

by revorad 16y ago

tesseract 16y ago
To distinguish from 'ra': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari#Consonants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari#Consonants
- revorad 16y ago
  I guess so, but it would be easier to just use a dot or more natural just to use the Ru (in devanagari script).
  - jey 16y ago
    As a Tamilian, I feel obligated to be offended by your suggestion. How about http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/bf9/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/bf9/index.htm instead ? :) The problem is that your suggestion would be interpreted as Hindi-favoritism, when India actually has many languages and scripts.
    - mahmud 16y ago
      You're not "Tamilian", you're Tamil.
      - jey 16y ago
        Both "Tamilian" and "Tamil" are valid nouns for a Tamil person, but "Tamil" is more often used as an adjective or to refer to the Tamil language.
bluesmoon 16y ago
If it didn't, it would just be the devanagari character र (Ra), which would be incorrect since in devanagari, the currently used symbol for the Rupee is रु (Ru). Now the reason they don't use the current devanagari symbol is because that's not representative of the entire country since there are many official languages, and few of them use the devanagari script.
- revorad 16y ago
  Ha! So they come up with a symbol which is basically a distorted version of the devanagari one.
  - deleted 16y ago
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  - compay 16y ago
    Well, really any decision is going to leave them open to criticism like this. Given that Hindi has more speakers in India than any other language, and is not the only language that uses Devanagari I think it's a pretty defensible choice.
chaitanya 16y ago
The two horizontal lines and the whitespace in the middle signify the tricolours of the Indian flag. http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/15/slide-show-1-iit-ians-design-selected-for-rupee-symbol.htm http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/15/slide-show...
iambvk 16y ago
to get = symbol, which stands for equality (among people, religion,etc)
- ugh 16y ago
  € and £ both (can) have two lines, the $ sign can have two lines, too. The two lines seem to me to be a allusion to that. (That’s why the € sign has two lines, anyway.)

Why does it need a second horizontal line cutting across?

by revorad 16y ago

Why does it need a second horizontal line cutting across?

To distinguish from 'ra': http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari#Consonants http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Devanagari#Consonants

revorad 16y ago
I guess so, but it would be easier to just use a dot or more natural just to use the Ru (in devanagari script).
- jey 16y ago
  As a Tamilian, I feel obligated to be offended by your suggestion. How about http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/bf9/index.htm http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/bf9/index.htm instead ? :) The problem is that your suggestion would be interpreted as Hindi-favoritism, when India actually has many languages and scripts.
  - mahmud 16y ago
    You're not "Tamilian", you're Tamil.
    - jey 16y ago
      Both "Tamilian" and "Tamil" are valid nouns for a Tamil person, but "Tamil" is more often used as an adjective or to refer to the Tamil language.

bluesmoon 16y ago

If it didn't, it would just be the devanagari character र (Ra), which would be incorrect since in devanagari, the currently used symbol for the Rupee is रु (Ru). Now the reason they don't use the current devanagari symbol is because that's not representative of the entire country since there are many official languages, and few of them use the devanagari script.

revorad 16y ago
Ha! So they come up with a symbol which is basically a distorted version of the devanagari one.
- deleted 16y ago
  [deleted]
- compay 16y ago
  Well, really any decision is going to leave them open to criticism like this. Given that Hindi has more speakers in India than any other language, and is not the only language that uses Devanagari I think it's a pretty defensible choice.

chaitanya 16y ago

The two horizontal lines and the whitespace in the middle signify the tricolours of the Indian flag. http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/15/slide-show-1-iit-ians-design-selected-for-rupee-symbol.htm http://business.rediff.com/slide-show/2010/jul/15/slide-show...

iambvk 16y ago

to get = symbol, which stands for equality (among people, religion,etc)

ugh 16y ago
€ and £ both (can) have two lines, the $ sign can have two lines, too. The two lines seem to me to be a allusion to that. (That’s why the € sign has two lines, anyway.)