GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 631470
Charmap does not know about U+20B9 ('₹', Indian Rupee Sign)
Last modified: 2010-10-11 11:46:29 UTC
Forwarded from https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/gucharmap/+bug/655357 The Ubuntu Font Family includes the newly-assigned '₹', Indian Rupee Sign; this character: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-font-family/+bug/645987 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign This codepoint was assigned by Unicode on 2010-08-10. The new Ubuntu font supports the new Indian Rupee symbol, this glyph is at U+20B9 further information about the symbol is available here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee_sign. Character map lists the code point as unassigned, although double clicking on where it should be does display the rupee and copies it to the clipboard. ... I looked at adding the U+20B9 entry to gucharmap, but gucharmap contains its own internal copy of the Unicode names and strings, and this noted that it was auto-generated from another source. Hopefully the upstream data-source will have been updated and the program can be be-compiled with this data-source; ideally the listing should be split out so that it can be shared with other applications.
U+20B9 is unassigned in unicode 5.2, currently the latest released version. The character will be available once we update after unicode 6.0 is released.
This problem has been fixed in the development version. The fix will be available in the next major software release. Thank you for your bug report.
Christian, do you have a commit ID (it's something that might be worth backporting at the distribution level because of six-month adoption cover that the Indian government has laid down). The disgusting solution that is being deployed at the moment are non-standard fonts that replace the tilde or grave with a ₹ Rupee Sign, but this is something that really wants to be discouraged.
No. This is a major update that should NOT be introduced/backported into a stable 2.32.x release.