2 queries: Indian Rupee font and direct typing of Indic fonts

There is no need to install anything to type Indic scripts. You go to system preferences/language & text/input sources and check the boxes for Devanagari, Tamil, Kannada, plus the box for Show Input Menu in Menu Bar, plus the box for Keyboard Viewer. Then you go to the "flag" menu at the top right of the screen and select Devanagari and type. You select Keyboard Viewer from the same menu to see which key does what. OS X already has the correct fonts installed and the script should appear in your text.

MS Word for Mac does not support Indic scripts, so use something else. Also Windows Indic fonts are most likely not going to work.

Is your reference to the "Indian Rupee font" just because you need to type the new Rupee symbol?

PS The new Indian Rupee sybol is at U+20B9 and is supported by a lot of fonts already in OS X 10.7, so you do not need to add anything. You can find and input it via the Character Viewer: ₹

Yes, I just want to know - how to type ₹ on a Mac?

Tried some ALT+ combinations. Didn't work. Neither did ALT+20B9(not sure, if was supposed to work at all). Or can I configure the specific keycombo for U+20B9? Maybe sth like Euro sign or pound sign as I hardly use them unike $ which I have to use while wiriting code.

How to do either?

Here are some options for inputting ₹:

a) use the Character Viewer

b) set up a shortcut in system preferences/language & text/text/symbol and text substitution

c) activate the Unicode Hex keyboard layout and hold the Option/alt key while typing 20B9

d) make a custom keyboard layout where you add 20B9 to a convenient key using

http://scripts.sil.org/ukelele

PS If you are running 10.8, ₹ is at option/alt + 4 in the Devanagari keyboard layout.

On OSX 10.9 Mavericks and Numbers 3.1 its simply `(Alt +` - ie Alt + the key to the left of 1). Then select that character and change the font to Rupee Foradian. Of course, the font Rupee Foradian must be installed. It can be found at: http://www.civilspedia.com/2010/10/get-rupee-symbol-from-your-keyboard-by.html#. UvJNnXl22PE or any other site.

On OSX 10.9 Mavericks and Numbers 3.1 its simply `(Alt +` - ie Alt + the key to the left of 1). Then select that character and change the font to Rupee Foradian. Of course, the font Rupee Foradian must be installed. It can be found at:http://www.civilspedia.com/2010/10/get-rupee-symbol-from-your-keyboard-by.html#. UvJNnXl22PE or any other site.

If you have installed Devanagari-QWERTY Keyboard (for installing the keyboard see Tom Gewecke's post dated May 10, 2012, in this chain itself), enable it and just press the "]" key. Should work without the font installation.

Applenut2010 wrote:

1). Then select that character and change the font to Rupee Foradian. Of course, the font Rupee Foradian must be installed.

I would recommend against using this option, because you are not really creating the Rupee symbol in digital terms and no one else will see it unless they also have the same font installed. Instead use the Devanagari keyboad layout option.

Try this link: http://mumzphai.blogspot.com/

It worked for me on my iPhone.

mpandit wrote:

Try this link: http://mumzphai.blogspot.com/

It worked for me on my iPhone.

But he has a Macbook Pro, NOT an iphone. They are totally different, so your answer is not very helpful.

The forum for iphones is at

https://discussions.apple.com/community/iphone/using_iphone