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Somebody needs to tell Amazon about this site: http://webrupee.com/

This pulls in a web font (woff) to display ₹. If Javascript is disabled it shows up as "Rs" instead. A fair compromise instead of images everywhere.

This is one of those technical things that makes little or no difference to a customer.

They'll probably get to it eventually.

Also find it odd that Google's calculator doesn't pick up that symbol in unicode for currency conversion.

I can't see the symbol you posted, so apparently not. (both FireFox 21.0 and IE8, Windows 7).

I see it fine on Chrome (latest stable) Win 7 Pro, but that explains it.

Visible on FF 21.