Unicode Technical Committee (UTC) accepted code position U+20B9 for the character INDIAN RUPEE SIGN
As per the official email we got from Michael Everson today afternoon, UTC accepted code position U+20B9 for the character of Indian Rupee Sign.
See the proposal submitted by Michael Everson to UTC on 19th July.
Quoting a part of Michael's email
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.
Michael Everson is the world's leading expert in the computer encoding of scripts. Wikipedia article - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Everson . Website - http://www.evertype.com/
We can be proud as it took less than a month for UTC to accept the Indian Rupee Sign. It is simply because everyone understood the importance of Rupee sign for our country. We never waited for UTC to accept the symbol to start using it. We started using it and UTC felt the emergency.
So whats next ?
We will be launching the new fonts with UTC approved code position. And will be posting tips and tricks on how to use it with existing keyboards and PCs. Wait for our next blog post.
Rupakara - A beautiful font designed by Michael Everson with support for Indian Rupee Symbol. Read more - http://blog.foradian.com/rupakara-first-font-with-indian-rupee-symbol
