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If it didn't, it would just be the devanagari character र (Ra), which would be incorrect since in devanagari, the currently used symbol for the Rupee is रु (Ru)
by bluesmoon 16y ago
If it didn't, it would just be the devanagari character र (Ra), which would be incorrect since in devanagari, the currently used symbol for the Rupee is रु (Ru). Now the reason they don't use the current devanagari symbol is because that's not representative of the entire country since there are many official languages, and few of them use the devanagari script.
- revorad 16y agoHa! So they come up with a symbol which is basically a distorted version of the devanagari one.
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- compay 16y agoWell, really any decision is going to leave them open to criticism like this. Given that Hindi has more speakers in India than any other language, and is not the only language that uses Devanagari I think it's a pretty defensible choice.