Be sure to switch back to your previous typeface before you continue typing. They decided to map the symbol to the grave accent key (aka the tilde key, in the upper left corner of most keyboards) since the key is seldom used, they say on their web site.Īfter you install the font, you can add the currency symbol to your text by switching to the Rupee Foradian typeface and hitting the tilde key (grave accent) once. In the meantime, Indian design firm Foradian Technologies released a free, cross-platform TrueType font, Rupee Foradian, that has the new Rupee symbol in its otherwise basic set of glyphs. You won’t find the newborn symbol in any of your current typefaces, of course, but you can expect to see it added to Open Type fonts over the next few years (or new versions of the fonts you already own), just as the Euro symbol was added to most typefaces over a short span of time. The new symbol ? a combination of the roman capital R without the vertical stem and the Devanagari letter “ra” is pretty cool looking: Last week, the Indian government announced a winner in their year-long contest to design a currency symbol specifically for the Indian rupee ( background info). All I knew was that to identify a monetary amount in rupees, you’d use the abbreviation “Rs.” I’m guessing the situation is similar to how both the US and Canada use dollars and the same “$” symbol. Until recently, I didn’t know that the Indian rupee is a different currency than the rupee or rupiah used by other countries like Pakistan and Nepal.
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