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Indian Rupee Got its Own Symbol

Posted on : 19-07-2010 | By : rituraj | In : General

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This post is not related to seo or Blogging, but I thought I shall share it with you all, as I am feeling very proud that Indian Currency has got its own symbol.

The symbol combines the Devnagri “Ra” and Roman Letter “R” with two parallel lines which denote the strength and development of Indian economy. Till now, the Indian currency was simply denoted by Rs or INR.

rupee symbol

The symbol is designed by Mr. D Udaya Kumar, a postgraduate from IIT Bombay and teacher in IIT Guwahati. He will receive Rs. 2.5 lakh as prize money.

After getting an unique symbol, Indian rupee has joined the club of elite currencies which have similar distinct symbols, the US Dollar, Euro, Yen and British Pound.

It would distinguish the rupee from those countries whose currencies are also designated as rupee or rupiah, such as Pakistan, Nepal, Sri Lanka and Indonesia.

So how to type the symbol using existing keyboards:

Foradian Technologies Pvt. Ltd, a Mangalore based firm has created a font called Rupee_Foradian, which can be downloaded from Company’s Blog for free at: blog.foradian.com

After downloading the font — a .ttf file — copy it to your computer’s C:/Windows/Fonts folder

Open a word file, type the first character(`) on the keyboard (it appears to the left of 1, select the character, and apply the Rupee_Foradian font.

I would like to invite all my fellow bloggers to share their thoughts on this.

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Comments (3)

Devang said on 10-08-2010

Nice Article! Indian rupee got its own symbol, its great to hear but do you think that it is going to make any difference in the way the currency is treated and used, mainly in black money. Also it is going to give any sense of pride to those Indians who always prefer to write addresses and phone numbers on currency notes.

However it will give a stand for Indian currency in the world market
rituraj said on 10-08-2010

@Devang – Your concern is right, but it is not relevant at this point, because a unique currency symbol does not anywhere to, how it is used….. So you must feel good for this….

I would like to invite all bloggers to share their ideas and thoughts here!!!
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