Malaysian ringgit unicode

anyone here use/did this currency for a font? it would be cool to have under Currency glyphs!

Can you point me to the unicode info.

And you can add the info yourself: https://glyphsapp.com/tutorials/roll-your-own-glyph-data

That’s nice.
Yeah, I can’t find the unicode for that currency.

Than you first have to write a proposal to the Unicode consortium to get one :wink:

wot what?

https://www.unicode.org/cldr/charts/24/summary/ta_MY.html
Native RM

If you mean the Currency group in the Glyphs sidebar, that seems intended for currencies (or currency fractions) that have dedicated symbols that are encoded in Unicode: $, ¢, €, £, ¥, ₹, ₩, ₫, ₪ etc. (not all of them are already in the sidebar).

As far as I know, the Malaysian Ringgit doesn’t have a dedicated symbol; banknotes use “RM”, a combination of two Latin characters.

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Yeah, that’s a problem since the client wants a dedicated RM symbol with a underline and so on… What do you guys recommend?

There are two options. Depends on the use case and what apps you use.

Make a “R_M” glyphs that has the shape like the client wants it.

  1. Add a “ss01” feature and add this code:
    sub R M by R_M;
    That way, you can active it with that feature.
    or
  2. in the “ccmp” feature add
    sub R zerowidthjoiner M by R_M;
    (you need to a glyph called zerowidthjoiner. It can stay empty but should have zero width)
    That way you can type ‘R’ ‘zerowidthjoiner’ ‘M’ and always get the sign without the need to active a feature. That should work in Adobe, MS Office and the web.
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Thanks @GeorgSeifert — Thats what I did, the liga… I will figure out what will be the medium for this font so I can give them the options. Anyway I think that Liga works fine on Web…

ccmp only works in the World-Ready Composer. The classic Composer ignores ccmp altogether, unfortunately.

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