Here's how to download new rupee symbol for free / Inidan Rupee

Here's how to download new rupee symbol for free
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Fret no more about downloading the rupee symbol on to your computer. The symbol may take a while to appear on the keyboard but can rightaway be typed as a character, thanks to a newly-created font.

Mangalore-based Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd has created a font called Rupee_Foradian. It can be downloaded from the company’s blogsite — http://blog.foradian.com — and used for free.

The company's CEO Unni Koroth told TOI that it was "something of an amusement to us in this era of technological advancement" that the government of India said it would take more than a year for the symbol to become commercially available. "We thought of doing something about it," he said. The company created a vector image of the new rupee sign and mapped the 'grave accent' symbol — the key just above the tab button on the keyboard — with it. This keystroke was chosen because most users and programmers don't use it.|

Within the hour, the trial version of the font was downloaded 1,100 times. When downloads crossed the 5,000 mark, the company worked on the full version, which it has also made available for free on the site. A YouTube video — www.youtube.com/watch?v=XSfhzuU7Crw — shows how easy it is to use the symbol. Many users of social networking sites have started using it, as have hundreds of bloggers. Version 2.0 of the font was released within 24 hours of the announcement of the rupee symbol.

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New symbol for "Rupee"! 

You might be thinking what this symbol mean?

This is new symbol for Indian currency "RUPEE". This have been a tough to invent the symbol from many symbols suggested by people engage in giving the symbol.But among all the designers,  D Udaya Kumar( post graduate from IIT.) was selected for his design for rupee symbol.He has been awarded Rs.2,50,000/- from Finance Ministry for his achievement.

According to D Udaya Kumar the symbol is design as such based on Indian tri color  with the lines added on the top and bottom representing the Indian flag. The symbol is primarily based on the ‘ra’ of the Devanagari script, with an attempt to incorporate the Roman script also, for international appeal.

 There where lot of suggestions for symbol like:

And many more near about 3000 designs were shortlisted for the competition.The symbol was approved by Union Cabinet.It has been announced that within 3 months the rupee symbol soon will be reflect in keyboard.Vendors say they will roll out the symbol as soon as the Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) sets the guidelines, since it takes only a minor software change to incorporate it.

The rupee symbol not be seen in coins and notes but will be used as Unicode Standard and in the major scripts used internationally so that it can be displayed and printed with ease."Rupee" word has been used by other countries too like Nepal, Sri lanka & Pakistan.To give a new stand , India wanted to give some thing new and unique way to its currency.

The new symbol was chosen because of its design capability to be part of existing software systems. The symbol will now be used on keyboards manufactured in India. Right now, as far as we know, there is no simple way to use the new Rupee sign while creating a document.