India's New Rupee Symbol Won't Show On Computers

itwbennett writes "It will take at least 18 months for encoding in Unicode the symbol for the Indian rupee that was approved by the Indian cabinet on Thursday. But it may be over two years before the rupee symbol starts showing on computers and mobile phones, analysts said. Many vendors are also undecided whether they will offer the new symbol on keyboards and keypads, or as additions in software to the character set supported by their devices. Nokia, for example, welcomed the move by the Indian government to have a symbol for the rupee. But a company spokeswoman said it's too early to comment on how the symbol will be implemented, whether on the phone keypad or on the character list."

Back in the good ol days

[FredFredrickson]

Back in the good old days, we had ascii 004- which gave us a nice little diamond symbol. What happened to that?

If I had my way, real life symbols would resemble the symbols in games- like gem shapes.

My loony bun

[Anonymous Coward]

Is fine Benny Lava! Minor bun engine made Benny Lava! Anybody need this symbol Benny Lava?

counterfeiters

[rfelsburg]

Just give the job to the counterfeiters, they'll have it out in a couple of months.

Re:India is the 5th country...

[cmiller173]

"You can't be a real country unless you have a beer and an airline - it helps if you have some kind of a football team, or some nuclear weapons, but at the very least you need a beer." -Frank Zappa

Just ask Shigeru Miyamoto for help

[Drakkenmensch]

Legend of Zelda games have had the same rupee symbol for years!

Holy symbols, Batman!

[Anonymous Coward]

Robin: The Riddler has escaped of Gotham! He left a note!

Note: 'Riddle me this, Batman - solve this equation: "?==$"'

Batman: Hmmm... It looks like he's gotten into the Indian money market.

Robin: However did you guess that, Batman?

Batman: You just have to overlap the ... what am I explaining this to you for? When we get to India, I am totally replacing you with a cheaper Indian model.

Robin: Holy takemyjarb, Batman!

Re:Cool Symbol

[happysingh]

Only if your "U" looks like a bath tub!

Two years is nothing

[PPH]

I'm still waiting for the Unicode symbol for TAFKAP [wikipedia.org].

Re:Euro

[Hurricane78]

I don’t believe you, as I can’t remember any time span between the Euro being introduced and it being typable. I remember a quick patch pushed trough Windows update, and another patch for Linux, and it was done.
I specifically remember that I never faced the problem of being unable to enter it.

Except on Slashdot of course. But it’s a surprise that Slashdot doesn’t still use Baudot or Murray encoding. I bet internally, it still runs on a special ternary hacked variant of the morse code. ;)

Re:Why use symbols?

[Yvan256]

1.00$USD
1.00$CAN
1.00$AU

Alternate ways of writing the above:
1.00 freedom dollar
1.00 dollar, eh?
You call that a dollar? THAT's a dollar.

Re:India is the 5th country...

[operagost]

This would eliminate most of the Middle East. Zappa was a genius!

Re:Euro

[sconeu]

Been there, done that [userfriendly.org]

Re:India is the 5th country...

[Anonymous Coward]

No your just an idiot and don't know how to get them to show through slashcode.

See them now dumbass?

Re:Back in the good ol days

[Nethead]

Do you mean control-D?

We use to have fun putting that as the first byte in someones .login file.

Re:Euro

[arth1]

But it's a surprise that Slashdot doesn't still use Baudot or Murray encoding. I bet internally, it still runs on a special ternary hacked variant of the morse code. ;)

We like to call it perl.