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Rupee Symbol Test

3 comments Written on August 13th, 2010 by
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This is just to check the rupee symbol out. You won't be able to see it on your RSS reader, or in IE 6, so ignore this post.

Rupees 400 = ₨ 400.

Random Technical Details:

  • I got this idea from Paisa.com which was launched today by Infinitely Beta. Good site, fast and clean. Do check it out!
  • The funda is - instead of using images which cause the server to get hit over and over again everytime you use the symbol, you use CSS. CSS 3 for those that are curious. The @font-face rule, for the even more curious. If you're still reading, read this article.
  • Warning: Reeely technical. What you need is an @font-face definition - in this case, the font TTF is base-64 encoded, and embedded using the url(data:... format using a font-type attribute. I've used some of it earlier for images and seen it mentioned on Brajeshwar's blog.
  • Once you thulp that into the CSS, you link the CSS file using a <link... tag. Since I'm using blogger I hosted the file on my deepakshenoy.com server.
  • Then when I need to type the rupee symbol, all I have to type is:
    <span class="rupee"&rt;& #8360;&lt/span&rt; (No spaces)
  • But I won't do it. It doesn't appear on RSS readers very well and around 3,300 of you will be pissed off. Not my idea of fun.
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3 comments “Rupee Symbol Test”

>Very Interesting.

Thanks a Lot for Sharing.

KeepingItSimple
08.14.10 at 2:21 AM
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>Good one.. THis looks better than using image as done in other sites… The image doesn't suit well to the theme of the page.

Anonymous
08.14.10 at 9:29 AM
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>Deepak,

Go ahead and use the symbol on your website to denote the Rupee..

Those of us who read RSS feeds know that we won't get the true formatting.. It's a price we've accepted in return for the flexibility we get with feed readers.

Just my $0.02

-Srikanth

Srikanth
08.15.10 at 5:41 PM
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