India's ¢u££€₦¢¥ Gets Its Own $¥mbol ₮oda¥

While the almighty dollar sign is universally known (and the oft counterfeited bills undergo frequent upgrades), India's currency, the rupee, has been strangely bereft of an official symbol to use when denoting it in text. Today it'll choose one, from a short list of five similar designs and join the ranks of its international cousins.

Googling for "rupee symbol" returns a barrage of different results, revealing the typographic disarray India's government finds itself in concerning its...