Talk:Azerbaijani manat/Archives/2014

Manat currency symbol

Where did the Manat currency symbol come from? Is it simply a stylized letter 'm' (i.e. would the general population equally accept an 'm' in a standard font)? Or is it a distinct symbol like £ or $?

What is the common usage? Do people usually write 'm'? Or ман./man.?

(I've brought the page in sync. with the [List of circulating currencies] by adding ман. and man. to the symbol on this page, and by adding 'm' in both places; I can't find a Unicode for the manat symbol.) --Ajhoughton 11:46, 26 July 2006 (UTC)

Look at this symbol from the Azerbaijani wiki: [1]. – Zntrip 17:42, 29 August 2006 (UTC)

the Manat symbol design was based on the Euro sign (€), and I've added related sources to the article. I presume that after rotating a Euro sign 90° clockwise, one of the bars was removed so the Manat symbol would also resemble a stylized "m". The current introduction of this article does say that a lowercase "m." (or "man.") is acceptable, but without a source, I don't know if that is true in Azerbaijan, or only elsewhere. —MJBurrage^(T•C) 16:55, 10 July 2014 (UTC)

One symbol or two?

The article on my screen says:

The Azerbaijani manat symbol, ₽ (), was assigned to Unicode U+20BC in 2013. A lowercase m. or man. can be used as a substitute for the manat symbol.

Trouble is, ₽ is U+20BD, RUBLE SIGN — not the manat sign at all. See Unicode Currency Symbols.

I looked in my computer's (Mac OS X 10.7.5) Character table, and it shows the ruble sign at Unicode 20BD... and also at 20BC, 20BA, and in fact all the code points from 20B6 through 20BF, except that 20B8 is left empty. Obviously there's an issue here with fonts that don't have the most recent additions.*

I've taken the ruble sign out of the paragraph. (In the quoted sentence above, I've replaced it, here in this talk page section, with the HTML numeric entity ₽ to be sure of showing the problem.)

I can't even tell whether that was meant to be a ruble sign or a manat sign. The wikicode had it as {{unicode|₽}}, with a character typed in there that I see as the ruble sign, but that clearly could have been meant as the manat sign or any of those other code points from 20B6 through 20BF (except 20B8).

*     Russia changed the Ruble symbol around 2013-12.

The Unicode consortium officially designated a code point, U+20BD RUBLE SIGN, ₽, for the new symbol in Unicode 7.0, released 2014-06-16. See the last entry in this Unicode chart of Currency Symbols (PDF).

—Stack Overflow: Russian ruble symbol HTML code?

If you would like to discuss this with me, please {{Ping}} me. Thnidu (talk) 09:40, 23 December 2014 (UTC)