Bug 12541

Summary:	update for indian locale for U+20B9 (New Rupee Symbol)
Product:	glibc	Reporter:	Pravin S <pravin.d.s>
Component:	localedata	Assignee:	GNU C Library Locale Maintainers <libc-locales>
Status:	RESOLVED FIXED
Severity:	normal	CC:	drepper.fsp
Priority:	P2	Flags:	fweimer: security-
Version:	2.13
Target Milestone:	---
Host:		Target:
Build:		Last reconfirmed:
Bug Depends on:	12711
Bug Blocks:
Attachments:	patch changing currency symbol to U+20B9 for all *_IN locales

Description Pravin S 2011-03-04 07:18:10 UTC

Created attachment 5272 [details]
patch changing currency symbol to U+20B9 for all *_IN locales

In Unicode 6.0 U+20B9 (New Rupee Symbol)

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U20A0.pdf

Now U+20B9 is being used everywhere, we need update for same in glibc locales as well.

same bugs is reported in downstream fedora as well https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=678216


Attaching patch for same

Discussion for same happened on fedora-i18n list as well
http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/i18n/2011-February/001111.html

Comment 1 Pravin S 2011-03-25 06:32:35 UTC

This is very important considering official Indian currency symbol, can someone take a look at it?

Comment 2 Pravin S 2011-04-06 10:48:18 UTC

ping??

Comment 3 Ulrich Drepper 2011-05-09 16:00:09 UTC

I checked in the patch.

Comment 4 Pravin S 2011-05-10 03:52:48 UTC

Thanks!!
Now people can get new rupee symbol from glibc :)

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