Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the deputy chairman of the Indian Planning Commission, said on July 15 that the recently approved rupee symbol should be ..." />
July 23: Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the deputy chairman of the Indian Planning Commission, said on July 15 that the recently approved rupee symbol should be incorporated into typewriters and computer keyboards so that it can be used on a daily basis.
During a meeting with Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, he said that it is a nice symbol, which should be used right away. Ahluwalia said that changes should be made in the hardware and software of computers so that the rupee symbol can be used just as the dollar and pound symbol is being used.
He expressed his confidence that the rupee will soon join the elite ranks of the dollar, the euro, the yen, and the pound.
Font with Indian Rupee Symbol - Download and Use Free
Download Version 2.0
We have made the first font with support for Indian currency symbol.
How to use ?
1. Download the above attached font Rupee.ttf or the new version Rupee_Foradian.ttf
2. Install the font. (It is easy. Just copy the font and paste it in "Fonts" folder in control panel)
3. Start using it. :)
How to type the Rupee symbol ?
We mapped the grave acent symbol - ` (the key just above "tab" button in your keyboard) with the new Rupee symbol. Just select "Rupee" font from the drop down list of your fonts in your application and press the key just above your tab button. It will display our new rupee symbol. Try it.
Limitations
The "Rupee.ttf" font is necessary to view the currency symbol. So as long as the new symbol is not encoded in to unicode font by default, we cant use the symbol universally.
http://blog.foradian.com/rupee-font-version-20
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