A code for the new Rupee Symbol for the Internet By Symbiosis (SICSR) Students

An article by Abhishek Sanghvi    6 Comments

It is not everyday that 21-year-olds do their nation proud. Two young computer students from Pune?s Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research (SICSR) have done their bit to put the symbol of the country?s economic pride on the world map.
Webrupee.com, is a joint initiative by Aman Kumar Jain and Meher Ranjan Howji, both students of the Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research. Rupee on the web Two young techies have developed a code for the new rupee symbol for the Internet
WebRupee is a web application programming interfaces (API) for the symbol of Indian currency, which makes the rupee symbol available to everybody on the web.The WebRupee API provides a simple, cross browser method for using the Rupee symbol on your webpage, blog or anywhere on the web.

THE THOUGHT

?The symbol for Indian currency was approved by the Union Cabinet on 15 July 2010, but, one still cannot use this symbol easily. Taking this into consideration, we made a web application, an API, using which any one can use the Rupee Symbol on the web free of charge and seamlessly across all the browsers on different platforms,? said Aman and Meher when asked about the thought behind this initiative.
The students have clearly kept the non-technical crowd in mind, as it is fairly simple to incorporate web rupee into your everyday surfing. ?We have kept the end-user in mind and he/she may not necessarily be very tech-savvy, but this symbol is not tough to incorporate,? the duo adds.
Citing an example of the user-friendliness of this API they demonstrate how it works. ?While writing a Java Script for a website, if you put a line of the code we developed on top of your website?s head section, it will convert all the ?Rs? text to Rupee Symbol. Moreover, the symbol is not an image, its text which needs no installation.?
Right now, only a website developer can incorporate the symbol, but with the new version which will be launched shortly, everyone will be able to use it.

UNICODE-D

The official Indian Rupee Symbol is to get incorporated in the UNICODE Character Set. They have also fixed the code U+20B9. ?Unfortunately though, all the computers in the world will have to update their existing UNICODE Character Set, which is not possible in a short duration. So this is our contribution to the nation’s success,? Aman and Meher added. Webrupee receives an an avarage of six hits per second. This works on mobile phones which have mini opera web browser support.

NEW RUPEE SYMBOL

Almost a month and a half back the government of India approved the new symbol for rupee desgined by Udaya Kumar, a student of design from the Indian Institute of Technology, Mumbai. Now, Aman and Meher are ensuring the widespread use of this symbol on the Internet.

CODE FOR WEBRUPEE

? Go to http://webrupee.com

? Add a stylesheet link in the head section of your webpage

{code type=codetype}

<link rel=”stylesheet”type=”text/css” href=”http://cdn.webrupee.com/font”>
{/code}

and add the code enclosing ?Rs.?

{code type=codetype}
<span>Rs.</span> 200
{/code}

? Just include the javascript and it will update all the ?Rs? / ?Rs.? for your past data also.

{code type=codetype}
<script src=”http://cdn.webrupee.com/js” type=”text/javascript”></script>
{/code}

FEATURES

? Supports most browsers
? Supports some mobile browser like mini opera
? Properties of the symbol like colour, size, etc can be modified easily like other texts

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