Unicode Character for Indian Rupee

Combination of Devanagri 'ra' and Roman 'R'

It is good news to Indian people that in few months we are getting our rupee symbol on keyboards ,there was a proposal sent to unicode consortium to attach our symbol to keyboard at 6 [Shift+6].Unicode consortium decided to approve in few months. The unicode character proposed by our government is U+0971.You can check this character by typing Alt+0971 in Ms-Word , the old charcter will be replaced soon.Hope in future we are able to express our money in .Another good news is Micosoft is giving help to provide necessary software to change our keyboard character and unicode character.

For the users, Microsoft said, "there would be no need of buying new software and an update would be provided on their current operating systems (obviously!). However, we see room for exploitation of the naïve as far as hardware is concerned, which reminds us of the mess that Y2Kwas. Keyboard manufacturers will definitely try to lure the corporates by advertising new keyboards, with the rupee symbol on them. But we, at Digit, vow that we would not let this happen. (Feel like Superman already!) Well, software can change one of the symbols on your current keyboards to type the ‘rupee’ symbol once it is a Unicode character. And we shall provide that as soon as this happens."

Presentation that was shared by Uday Kiran 

Indian rupee symbol