Is already finalized but it has to complete the process and it will take quiet sometime to get into the keyboard layout but Thanks to Mangalore based company, Foradian Technologies Pvt Ltd which have created a font used in the Indian Rupee Symbol and can be used by installing the font they have created. Apart from this you can use the key which has tild on it to type in the Rupee Symbol easily. In this post I have explained how you can install the font, type the indian rupee symbol and preserver the Indian Rupee Font when distributing to other users or when opening in another computer. Here are the steps:. Download the (RupeeForadian).

1. Download Indian Rupee Font For Mac

I am facing issue with INR currency symbol.i have installed rupee font. Mac OS X Lion (10.7) also includes the new Indian rupee symbol.

Download Indian Rupee Font For Mac

Open the fonts folder in your computer in C: Windows Fonts. Drag and Drop the downloaded file name RupeeForadian.ttf inside this. Close the folder. Now go to any standard editor and you would see the RupeeForadian font available like below: How to preseve the Indian Rupee Font when sent to other users or computer? Now when you create this document using the Indian Rupee Font and send to another user or open in different computer, this font will not work as it is not installed on the other machine.

So to presrve the font you should use the option of “Keep Font Intact” in the word document. Follow the Related: PS: This is till not the official font from Indian Government so make sure you do think about legal implications if any.

The newly minted Indian Rupee symbol (₹) is now part of Unicode and has been assigned codepoint U+20B9 in the Currency Symbol block.While we await the OS manufacturers to ship out updates to add this symbol to their system fonts and also make it available for typing in when one installs Indian locales - the Indian government has apparently mandated ^⌥R (Ctrl-Alt-R) as the combination to be used to input the symbol - individual font designers have already come out with easily usable fonts for the symbol at the correct codepoint. The first one to be published is the Rupakara (रूपकारः) font designed by from Ireland and made available for free via an open licence. You can download it from these locations.

To use it on a Macintosh, download the 4 TTF files, select them all and open them in FontBook, and click on 'Install Font' to install the font on the system. After you do this, you should be able to see the symbol correctly on any documents or webpages that encode it at the Unicode codepoint U+20B9. As a test, the following sentences should make sense to you and display the symbol correctly:. The evidence of massive runaway inflation is all around us: In Mumbai these days, you can buy a litre of dairy farm milk for ₹36 and a kilo of dahi (Indian yogurt) for ₹60 which is almost double the price a few years ago! Onions have gone from ₹7 a kilo in 2008 to ₹36 today!!. आजकल मुंबई में एक लीटर दूध का भाव ₹३६ है और एक किलो दही का ₹६०, जो कुछ ही सालों के मुक़ाबले दुगना है!. ₹36/litre = $3.15/gallon @ $1 = ₹43 as of today.

While you can view the symbol, in order to type it, you need to jump through a few more hoops, until Apple releases a keyboard shortcut for the Rupee (ideally, it should be ⌥ (Option) followed by some key in keeping with the Mac custom). In the meantime, you have two options:.

Use the Unicode Hex Input utility: This allows you to type in Option followed by the codepoint (20B9 in our case) to have the symbol encoded at that codepoint to appear. It's available in the Input Source viewer once you have enabled it through  System Preferences Language and Text Input Sources. Use the Character Viewer utility to pick out the Rupee symbol and add it to Favorites. Whenever you need to insert the symbol, pick it from the Favorites list and click Insert. You can also use the Clipboard for convenience.