Comment 2 for bug 662150

Alex: yes the Unicode codepoint was only assigned on 11 August 2010, and Unicode 6.0 was only released on 11 October 2010 (one day after the release of Ubuntu that shipped with a font containing the glyph).

However, that is all some what ancillary. The problem here is differing codepaths; pasting '₹' works, but using the Gtk+ method for Unicode entry does not.

Therefore, Inkscape is /overriding/ the default Gtk+ method and /breaking/ it in the process (eg. extra code in Inkscape is /obstructing/ something that is already working at the toolkit-wide level).

In this case Inkscape appears to be applying some kind of filter; and that filter of course can never reliably cope with future expansion of Unicode. Ideally the "clever" filter would be removed and the standard Gtk+ methodology be allowed to operate normally.