Indian rupee sign

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The Indian rupee sign (₹) is the currency symbol for the Indian rupee (ISO 4217: INR), the official currency of India. The sign was designed by D. Udaya Kumar, an Indian academic and designer. The sign was first presented to the public by the Government of India on 15 July 2010, following its selection through an open competition among Indian residents. At that point, the sign had not yet been adopted, but the government had officially announced that it would be adopted by the end of 2010. The sign was adopted by the Unicode Consortium and was given a codepoint (U+20B9) in Unicode with the coming of version 6.0 on 12 October 2010, making it usable worldwide as soon as computer fonts which included that were installed. After the introduction of Unicode 6.0, books, bank cheques, and many types of official government documents began using the new symbol, marking the official and true adoption of the Indian rupee sign. On 28 February 2011, Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee, in his speech,...

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