14 DAY TRIAL // Microsoft has released an update to all supported versions of Windows designed to introduce support for the new currency symbol that will be used from now on for the Indian Rupee.
Customers can download variants of KB 2496898 and install the refresh in accordance with the operating system they’re running.
According to the software giant, following the installation of the update, the new currency symbol for the Indian Rupee (which can be seen in the image accompanying this article) will be available in Windows 7 SP1 and RTM, Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and RTM, as well as Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008.
Users will be able to find download links for the update at the bottom of this article. At the same time, the ref5reshe is being served through Windows Update.
Of course, the refresh is not limited at introducing the new symbol for the Rupee. The Redmond company revealed that “this update includes font support, locale changes, and keyboard support.”
Before the new symbol was adopted by India for its currency, the Rupee was abbreviated as either Rs or Re, although Indian language alternatives also existed.
The Indian government announced a contest for a new currency symbol back in the first half of 2009, and over a year later the winning design was selected.
The official Rupee symbol was created by Udaya Kumar Dharmalingam, who based the design on the Devanagari letter र, to which he added an extra horizontal line.
The new Rupee symbol is already a part of Unicode version 6.0, and it only makes sense for Microsoft to also integrate it into copies of the Windows o0perating system.
Take a good long look at the Rupee symbol above, as it will be used to represent India’s currency just as the case for the US Dollar ($), the Japanese Yen (¥), or the Euro (€).
Download links:
- All supported x86-based versions of Windows Vista
- All supported x64-based versions of Windows Vista
- All supported x86-based versions of Windows Server 2008
- All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008
- All supported IA-64-based versions of Windows Server 2008
- All supported x86-based versions of Windows 7
- All supported x64-based versions of Windows 7
- All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2
- All supported IA-64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2