Dear Listers, According to a news item that appeared in the newspapers today, the Indian Government has approved a new symbol to represent the Rupee in national and international transactions. It is a combination of the Roman letter 'R' and the Devanagari letter 'ra', with two horizontal lines running through, the upper horizontal line also standing for the horizontal line from which all Devanagari letters hang. You can have a look at the symbol at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rupee#New_Rupee_symbol . The Indian Rupee was so far designated as INR or Rs In due course of time software/hardware developers will design key-strokes or keyboards so that the symbol can be represented in computer-generated documents. India has thus joined a select group of currencies having their distinct symbols like the US dollar, the Euro, the British pound and the Japanese yen. Eventually, all countries with Rupee as the name of the currency, can adopt it by attaching their own prefixes to it. Arvind Kolhatkar, Toronto, July 15, 2010.