Are you tired of using the same Rupee Symbol style in all your print documents. Here is a cool new "pi font" from us, which has got 26 different glyph styles for the new Indian Rupee Symbol.
Download the above font and install it in your PC. Will work with Windows, Linux and Mac. After installation, select the font and use Capital letters A to Z to get 26 different glyph styles for Indian Rupee Symbol. If you have any doubt or suggestions, post as a comment.
Rupakara is a new font created by Michael Everson to give support to the newly invented Indian Rupee Sign, which has been assigned to U+20B9 by Unicode.
Michael Everson is the world's leading expert in the computer encoding of scripts. He is famous for his constant efforts to add a wide variety of scripts and characters to the Universal Character Set. His proposals have added thousands of characters to ISO/IEC and Unicode standards. He received the Unicode "Bulldog" award in 2000 for his technical contributions to the development and promotion of the Unicode Standard.
You can get more information from his website - click here and the Wikipedia page - click here
The UTC meeting is all this week, and it won't be until next week probably before the Pipeline is updated. http://www.unicode.org/alloc/Pipeline.htmlI phoned in to the meeting from Ireland. Everyone was clear about the importance of getting the character encoded quickly, and also of preventing the proliferation of fonts with the character in non-standard positions. And the code position was chosen at yesterday's meeting.
Thankyou all for the positive comments. Will reply and clarify each and every doubts.
Please note that we can use the rupee symbol globally only after unicode approves it. With this launch we have proved that, if all of us work together, we don't have to wait for anyone else to approve the symbol to start using it. If we start using it others wil have to follow.
We know that font creation is not a rocketscience. Anyone with a good knowledge in computers can do it. There are many free tools available too. If a small company like Foradian can do like this, just think what the Indian Govt and Media working together can achieve to get the rupee symbol into all PCs and Keyboards. It is possible and can be done in days.
go to setting ----- > control panel ------> regional & lang option ------> customize ------> then click currency tab Put currency symbol as " ` " click ok Open excel go to format cell (Ctrl + 1 command) click to Number tab ------- > select currency as " ` " & ok it select fonts as Rupee_Foradian.ttf
We mapped the grave acent symbol - ` (the key just above "tab" button in your keyboard) with the new Rupee symbol. Just select "Rupee" font from the drop down list of your fonts in your application and press the key just above your tab button. It will display our new rupee symbol. Try it.
Limitations
The "Rupee.ttf" font is necessary to view the currency symbol. So as long as the new symbol is not encoded in to unicode font by default, we cant use the symbol universally.
