How to type the Indian Rupee Symbol?

Question

I want to type the Indian Rupee Symbol. So I went to System Settings >> Keyboard Layout and clicked on the Options button. Under the Adding Currency signs to keys sections, I checked the Rupee on 4 option.

Later when I opened the Layout Chart of the Keyboard there was Rupee sign in the 4 key but I do not know how to type the symbol. What combination of the keys will type the Rupee symbol on the screen?

Answer 1

Just press Alt R+4 like in below image:

See also this answer.

Note: You need to change your keyboard setting to English (India, with rupee sign) as default for this to work.

Answer 2

The other way is to use the following combination on any keyboard ctrl+shift+u then type 20b9 then spacebar This will add the rupee symbol.

Answer 3

IN ubuntu 14.04 LTS to get rupee sign (₹) follow the steps

1. click on symbol En
2. select text entry
3. click on + sign
4. double-click english(India ,with rupee sign)
5. close it
6. again click on symbol En
7. select english(India ,with rupee sign)
8. to type rupee sign press right Alt + 4

Answer 4

For using rupee symbol (₹) go to insert → then symbol → then select rupee symbol → then go to shortcut key → there you put new shortcut key as (Alt+4) → then assign. After that you may use this symbol by Alt+4 from next time.

Answer 5

For 16.04 LTS

It is right side ALT + 4 while using English (India, with rupee sign ) keyboard layout.

Simply type " Text Entry " in dash and you will be able to select/add keyboard layouts. This works in 16.04 LTS.

Answer 6

1. Add English(India, with Rupee sign) layout in Keyboard settings.
2. Select this layout in the applet on the panel.
3. Use alt gr+4, if your keyboard has ₹ symbol on 4.

Answer 7

When you are creating an Homepage and you need the currency as Indian Rupee, then you need the charset-iso-code as UTF-8 AS follows in HTML :

I will display Indian Rupee with ₨

8360 is the reserved number in HTML for Indian Rupee.