Rupakara - First font with Indian Rupee Symbol at Unicode agreed code position - Free Download
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.
You can download the font for free from http://www.evertype.com/fonts/rupakara/
We are thankful to Michael Everson not only for this font but also for his proposal to Unicode for assigning a code position to Indian Rupee symbol on emergency basis.
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
