Indian rupee is now part of the Unicode Standard
The new rupee symbol has been accepted by the Unicode Consortium's Unicode Technical Committee which met on October 11, 2010 in London and announced the newly finalized Unicode version 6.0 that adds 2088 characters with over 1000.
INDIAN RUPEE has now been officially made a part of the Unicode Standard and typing the rupee symbol is all set to get easier. For extensive usage, this symbol will be encoded in the International Standard ISO/IEC 10646. The symbol will be included in the Indian Standards, viz 13194:1991 – Indian Script Code for Information Interchange (ISCII), by the means of an amendment to the existing list set by the Bureau of Indian Standards. The ISCII specifies various codes for Indian languages for processing on computers along with the keyboard lay outs. The new rupee symbol has been accepted by the Unicode Consortium's Unicode Technical Committee which met on October 11, 2010 in London and announced the newly finalized Unicode version 6.0 that adds 2088 characters with over 1000 new symbols including that of the Indian rupee. The Committee is also responsible for the development and maintenance of the Unicode Standard, including the Unicode Character Database. In the coming few months, as per the revised keyboard lay out, people will be able to use symbols like the Japanese yen, British pound, American dollars and the Euro.
The symbol for Indian rupee was designed by an IIT post graduate student D Udaya Kumar. The latest release of the Unicode Standard also includes support for the ancient Indian Brahmi script that was in use during the reign of Emperor Ashoka. While encoding of the rupee symbol in the Indian Standards is estimated to take about three months, its inclusion in the global standards would take about 18 months to two years.
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