[1 new] Expansion: Currency: '₪' New Israeli Shekel sign (U+20AA)

Bug #694737 reported by Ddorda
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Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Triaged
High
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Bug Description

Most of the global fonts support the Israeli shekel sign "₪", which is the sign of the Israeli Shekel.
the sign in fact combines the two letter Shin (ש) and Khet (ח), that together initials Shekel Khadash (which is "New Shekel").
more information about this sign: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shekel_sign

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Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote :

Ddorda: Confirmed. I can't milestone this to either Hebrew or Community Expansion just yet as I don't have a list of what non-character symbols are covered by the initial DM contract and don't wish to offend anyone!

Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
importance: Undecided → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
summary: - Israeli Shekel sign
+ Expansion: Currency: '₪' New Israeli Shekel sign (U+20AA)
Paul Sladen (sladen)
tags: added: uff-currency uff-hebrew
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David Marshall (dave-daltonmaag) wrote : Re: [Bug 694737] Re: Israeli Shekel sign

I can say we will be providing a shekel sign, as we've already discussed
internally whether the design should be on tabular numeral widths or
not. (In our opinion, the design is compromised too much if it is, so
the default won't be.)

Dave

Paul Sladen (sladen)
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
milestone: none → hebrew
status: Confirmed → In Progress
Revision history for this message
Paul Sladen (sladen) wrote : Re: Expansion: Currency: '₪' New Israeli Shekel sign (U+20AA)

David: thanks for the update and the interest question of whether to retain fixed numeral width.

Ddorda: what's your experience of the ₪ in general, is it normally held with numeral width. Do you have any particular "good" examples of the symbol that you're used to seeing, and/or any examples of particularly bad (confusing, hard to read) examples, that we should try to avoid in UFF?

summary: - Expansion: Currency: '₪' New Israeli Shekel sign (U+20AA)
+ [1 new] Expansion: Currency: '₪' New Israeli Shekel sign (U+20AA)
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
importance: Wishlist → High
tags: added: uff-dm-new
Changed in ubuntu-font-family:
status: In Progress → Fix Committed
Revision history for this message
Adolfo Jayme Barrientos (fitojb) wrote :

Dalton Maag is no longer involved; this doesn’t appear to have been added to the Type Network commissioned work

affects: ubuntu-font-family → fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu)
Changed in fonts-ubuntu (Ubuntu):
milestone: hebrew → none
status: Fix Committed → Triaged
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