{"id":2535,"date":"2010-07-19T11:09:45","date_gmt":"2010-07-19T03:09:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/?p=2535"},"modified":"2010-07-19T11:09:45","modified_gmt":"2010-07-19T03:09:45","slug":"india-introduces-its-new-rupee-symbol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/2010\/india-introduces-its-new-rupee-symbol.html","title":{"rendered":"India Introduces Its New Rupee Currency Symbol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Government has finally unveiled the new standardised symbol for Ruppe. It&#8217;s a combination of Devanagri &#8216;ra&#8217; and Roman &#8216;R&#8217;. This move will see the use of &#8220;Rs.&#8221; to mark the rupee currency being slowly phased out. It&#8217;s a good move by the Indian government since some other countries are calling their currency as &#8220;rupee&#8221; as well (e.g. Pakistan and Nepal).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rupee_new_currency_symbol.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2538 aligncenter\" title=\"rupee_new_currency_symbol\" src=\"http:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rupee_new_currency_symbol.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"460\" height=\"288\" srcset=\"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rupee_new_currency_symbol.jpg 460w, https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/07\/rupee_new_currency_symbol-300x187.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 460px) 100vw, 460px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The new symbol, however, will take some time to appear on keyboard or even OS, since the government will have to apply for it to be included in the &#8220;Unicode List&#8221; managed by the Unicode Consortium. Only after it is approved as a Unicode Standard that the symbol can be used by vendors to include the symbol in their hardware (e.g. keyboard, keypad). Anyway, it is indeed a good move by the Indian government!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Indian Government has finally unveiled the new standardised symbol for Ruppe. It&#8217;s a combination of Devanagri &#8216;ra&#8217; and Roman<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2539,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,1],"tags":[1117,1116,747,1118,1119],"class_list":["post-2535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-issues","category-personal","tag-currency","tag-india","tag-money","tag-rupee","tag-symbol"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2535\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2539"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/keemanxp.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}