Talk:Rupee sign

Proposed rename to rupee sign

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See also: discussion on moves for Indian National Rupee and Indian National Rupee Sign

This is in line with Wikipedia naming conventions for article title format, that uppercase only be used for the first letter and proper nouns.Sroc (talk) 04:11, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

For your kind information both Rupee and Sign are Proper nouns and qualify to be capitalised —Preceding unsigned comment added by SivaneshR (talk • contribs) 14:53, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Rupee and sign are common nouns, not proper nouns, in the same way that dollar, euro, franc and currency sign are not proper nouns. Both rupee and sign are presented in lowercase in the Wiktionary, as well as throughout their respective Wikipedia articles. Just because it is the title of the article does not mean that each word should be capitalised. Sroc (talk) 04:40, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Agreed with Sroc. Kubek15 ^write/sign 10:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Done. —sroc (sroc) 14:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

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Proposed merge July 2010, Rupee sign and Indian Rupee sign

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• Disagree The new sign is for the Indian rupee only and not for other rupees from a couple of other countries. So merger into Rupee sign which mentions Sri Lanka, Nepal, Pakistan, Mauritius, Seychelles, Indonesia, and the Maldives besides Indian is not required.--PremKudva^Talk 04:22, 17 July 2010 (UTC)
• Disagree. We should have four articles: Indian rupee, Indian rupee sign, Rupee, and Rupee sign. That is what we have today, and it's all we need. I have put hatnotes on Indian rupee sign and Rupee sign pointing to one another. -- Evertype·✆ 15:56, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

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Rp

It resembles, and is often written as, the Latin character sequence "Rs" or "Rs." In my browser it looks like "Rp". I know Rp is supposed to be Rupiah, but many fonts get that wrong. It should be mentioned because it's very confusing to read that Rp looks like Rs. And what about the four other rupee signs in Unicode?--92.78.102.204 (talk) 00:34, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Proposed rename to Generic rupee sign

This is in line with Wikipedia naming conventions for article title format, that uppercase only be used for the first letter and proper nouns; rupee is not a proper noun, nor is sign.Sroc (talk) 04:11, 19 July 2010 (UTC)

Agreed. Kubek15 ^write/sign 10:00, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Done. —sroc (sroc) 14:01, 20 July 2010 (UTC)

Merge with Rupee

The merge request was put by User:AirplanePro.

Agree. Jay (talk) 03:58, 28 July 2010 (UTC)

Disagree This article is about the Unicode character ₨ and not about the rupee. This article has enough content to serve as a separate article. Over time this article will achieve the status of a good article. All currencies that have a sign have a seperate article for the currency and a separate article for the sign. Hence I strongly object to the merger. R.Sivanesh ^(Talk) 15:30, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

Proposed rename to Rupee sign

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I object to the use of "Generic" in this article title. The Rs character is called the Rupee sign. It is distinct from the new Indian rupee sign. There should only be two articles, with those names, and hatnotes pointing to each other. This Generic rupee sign article should redirect to Rupee sign. -- Evertype·✆ 10:53, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

DisagreeThe word generic is necessary to clearly distinguish it from the Indian rupee sign. Hence I strongly object renaming the article. R.Sivanesh ^(Talk) 15:33, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

This reasoning is not sound. This character has always been called Rupee sign and there is no reason for it to change just because a new character has been invented for specific Indian use. The creation of a new character should not necessitate change the name of the old character. -- Evertype·✆ 19:07, 2 August 2010 (UTC)

How can you move without achieving consensus? R.Sivanesh ^(Talk) 14:30, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

I have restored these articles to the status quo. We need only four articles: Indian rupee for the currency of India, Indian rupee sign for the newly-created character, Rupee for the generic currency name, and Rupee sign for the generic currency sign, whose Unicode name is RUPEE SIGN. The creation of the Indian rupee sign does not oblige us to add "Generic" to either Rupee or Rupee sign. -- Evertype·✆ 15:51, 4 August 2010 (UTC)

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Taka

The table Rupee Sign in other Languages mentions Taka in the second row. But this is not a another symbol for Rupee, but for Taka, the Bangladeshi currency, which is completely different from Rupee. Although Taka (Bengali) and Toka (Assamese) are used in place of Indian Rupee, the symbol is never used, it is exclusively used for Bangladeshi Taka, which is different from Rupee being called Taka in two Indian languages.

So I propose it should be removed.

Raju Das 09:49, 5 November 2010 (UTC) —Preceding unsigned comment added by Rajuonline (talk • contribs)

I disagree. Taka and Rupee are synonymous. Even the Unicode table says that it is Bengali rupee. That prevails in common parlance should remain in Wikipedia rather than some thing very hypercritical. Hence I strongly object the proposal. R.Sivanesh ✆ 14:56, 5 November 2010 (UTC)

Maldives?

The Maldives does not use the rupee. It uses Rufiyaa, a unique currency to the country. The symbol used is 'Rf' not 'Rs'. Why is Maldives mentioned here? I suggest removal. - ℤiαηsh✍ 15:06, 19 January 2011 (UTC)

Rs or Rp?

The rupee sign variably resembles either "Rs" or "Rp". What is the difference with regards to usage? Is one prefered over the other or are they used in different contexts? The article does not make this clear, nor have I been able to find an explanation anywhere else. PC78 (talk) 00:36, 9 October 2011 (UTC)

Symbol fail

Is it just me, or is the symbol not showing up properly at the top of Template:Punctuation? -- Beland (talk) 18:55, 29 May 2013 (UTC)

Well, it seems to be working now. -- Beland (talk) 00:38, 25 March 2014 (UTC)

Article recreated (with acknowledgements)

In 2014, the content of this article was merged into Rupee without any discussion that I can see but it doesn't matter. Per talk:Rupee#Proposal: split article to create a separate Rupee sign article, I have recreated it as a standalone article. This makes it consistent with Dollar sign, Euro sign, Indian rupee sign, Peso sign, Ruble sign, Won sign, Yen sign and Yuan sign. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:05, 1 December 2019 (UTC)

Acknowledgment

This recreation was achieved by copying Rupee#Symbol. See history of that article for provenance. I wish to acknowledge the work of earlier editors who created and developed it. --John Maynard Friedman (talk) 17:05, 1 December 2019 (UTC)