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How can I display the new Rupee (Indian) symbol in TextView?

Mithical
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Ahmed Faisal
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  • try using https://gist.github.com/john1jan/a82912fb355771e565bea1720439c5dc . It prefixes rupee symbol and adds even give comma separated amount – John Jul 08 '16 at 07:01

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you can use 

<string name="Rs">\u20B9</string>

\u20B9 is 'Rupee Symbol'

or 

<string name="rs">\u20A8</string>

\u20A8 is 'Rs'

bilash.saha
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  • Hi i tried the same thing to display Rupees Symbol in android and tried to access like this: currencySymbol = mContext.getResources().getString(R.string.str_symbol_rs);. but its showing Rectangle like its not recognized that unicode. i tested on Samsung Galaxy ace. – Raj Apr 07 '13 at 07:47
  • try using https://gist.github.com/john1jan/a82912fb355771e565bea1720439c5dc . It prefixes rupee symbol and adds even give comma separated amount – John Jul 08 '16 at 07:02
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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
 <resources>

  <string name="app_name">Currency</string>
  <string name="us">\u0024</string>
  <string name="Rs">\u20B9</string>

</resources>
Martijn Pieters
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Dhina k
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  • Please don't post identical answers to multiple questions. Post one good answer, then vote/flag to close the other questions as duplicates. If the question is not a duplicate, _tailor your answers to the question_. – kleopatra Sep 10 '15 at 08:42
  • try using https://gist.github.com/john1jan/a82912fb355771e565bea1720439c5dc . It prefixes rupee symbol and adds even give comma separated amount – John Jul 08 '16 at 07:02
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Textview indian;
indian.setText("\u20B9 10,000");

output :

₹ 10,000

Hakan Fıstık
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saigopi.me
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You have to just save the rupee symbol in a string as shown below:

String string = "\u20B9";

Now you can use this anywhere you want in your code like toast or in anything else.

Edric
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Shubham Chaudhari
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If you want to display the rupee symbol along with a value, the value can be formatted accordingly. To change an amount to Indian Rupees format in kotlin (this adds the symbol also), use the NumberFormat class with getCurrencyInstance().

val formattedAmount = NumberFormat.getCurrencyInstance(Locale("en", "IN")).format(amount)

The amount variable is the value in double.

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