On 10 August 2010 the Unicode Technical Committee accepted the proposed code position U+20B9
indian rupee sign (HTML: ₹). The character is to be encoded and named distinctly from the existing character U+20A8 ₨ rupee sign (HTML: ₨), which will continue to be available as the generic rupee sign. Currently the Indian rupee sign is officially supported by following fonts:
- DejaVu fonts version 2.32 [direct download]
- Ubuntu Font Family in Ubuntu 10.10 [direct download]