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

NEW DELHI — The Indian rupee joined the U.S. dollar, the British pound, the euro and the Japanese yen on Thursday when it got its very own symbol. The rupee’s new rune is a modification of a ...

The United States dollar has its symbol, $. So does the British pound, £; the Japanese yen, ¥; and the Euro, €. But not the Indian rupee, until now.

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.

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." ...

The story behind the Rupee symbol: how it came into existence? After extensive research, Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam combined the Devanagari ‘Ra’ for rupiah and the Roman ‘R’ for rupees to ...

To use the Rupee symbol, we will need to install English(India) in Windows 11/10. Make sure your account has enough permission to do this; else, you can always ask the admin user to do that for you.

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.

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 ...