The survey sampled 7,000 people, giving them several combination key options for the symbol, and asking for their feedback. There were options like Alt+`, Alt+3, Alt+\, Alt+5, Alt+2.

D. Udaya Kumar of IIT Bombay designed the Indian Rupee symbol in 2009, before which the Indian currency had no graphic ...

The winning symbol was approved by Indian union cabinet in July 2010 and a proposal was submitted to encode the Indian rupee sign into UCS and make it a computer standard.

Microsoft has released a Windows update that adds support for India’s new rupee symbol, but the update excludes a significant number of users who still run Windows XP, according to analysts. The ...

The Indian Finance Ministry unveiled its choice for the new Rupee symbol today--and it's an amalgam of both Eastern and Western letters, using the Devanagari "Ra" and Roman capital "R." ...

India's new Rupee symbol won't show soon on computers It will take at least 18 months for encoding the symbol in Unicode, the government says. By John Ribeiro.

For Indians used to seeing the dollar symbol on the keyboard, this will be a welcome change. It will be just a matter of a few months for India's new rupee symbol to be a part of the software code ...

Vendors of computers, mobile phones, and software say they will support the symbol for the Indian rupee that was approved by the Indian cabinet on Thursday. But it may be over two years before the ...