To display the Indian rupee symbol , you must have a font—such as the Ubuntu Font Family—with support for the character.
Windows users may use the new Rupkara font which has the Unicode postion mapping for the symbol. For downloading the font, please visit-http://blog.foradian.com/rupakara-first-font-with-indian-rupee-symbol
How-To
For K/Ubuntu 10.10 users, this is automatic.The sign can inserted in your own documents using copy-and-paste from another location, or using the Unicode-entry method, which is the correct way of doing it, and it is as follows-
The codepoint at U+20B9 was assigned by the Unicode consortium on 11 August 2010 (2010-08-11).
A fact-
Ubuntu 10.10 is the first operating system to ship with out-of-the-box support for displaying the Indian Rupee Sign, and this happened on 10 October 2010 (2010-10-10).
Windows users may use the new Rupkara font which has the Unicode postion mapping for the symbol. For downloading the font, please visit-http://blog.foradian.com/rupakara-first-font-with-indian-rupee-symbol
How-To
For K/Ubuntu 10.10 users, this is automatic.The sign can inserted in your own documents using copy-and-paste from another location, or using the Unicode-entry method, which is the correct way of doing it, and it is as follows-
- Ubuntu 10.10:
20b9 - MS Windows:
20b9 - Kubuntu 10.10: Copy-and-paste ‘₹’
- HTML: insert “₹”
The codepoint at U+20B9 was assigned by the Unicode consortium on 11 August 2010 (2010-08-11).
A fact-
Ubuntu 10.10 is the first operating system to ship with out-of-the-box support for displaying the Indian Rupee Sign, and this happened on 10 October 2010 (2010-10-10).
Ubuntu 10.10:< Ctrl-Shift-u > 20b9 < enter >
ReplyDeleteMS Windows: < Press-and-hold Alt > 20b9 < Release Alt >
Kubuntu 10.10: Copy-and-paste ‘₹’
HTML: insert & # x 2 0 b 9;