Rupee Symbol can soon be directly typed using a Keyboard

New Rupee Symbol can soon be directly typed using a Keyboard!!!!

Very soon users can simply type the Rupee symbol using normal computer keyboard. According to announcement by government today, The Indian Rupee symbol can now directly be typed on the keyboard using “Alt Gr” + “4” keys together. The new Rupee symbol has been encoded in Unicode Standard and National Standard ISCII.
Microsoft has also released an update to support the new currency symbol for the Indian rupee in Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and in Windows Server 2008 R2. It is available on http://support.Microsoft.Com/kb/2496898. Regarding the placement of the sign on the keyboard, a consensus was arrived among the stakeholders to use combination of ‘AltGr’ and numeral ’4′ for typing the symbol,
The rupee symbol can be downloaded from http://tdil-dc.In/ and typed by pressing ‘AltGr’ together with ’4′. Technology Development for Indian Languages (TDIL) programme is an initiative of Ministry of Communications and Information Technology. The symbol has been incorporated as UNICODE standard, which specifies the representation of text in all modern software products and standards.
Being a standard, all keyboard manufacturers will now have to include new rupee symbol on their keyboards
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