Russian ruble symbol HTML code?

Question

Since Russian central bank already approved the new symbol for Russian ruble, is there any HTML code for it? Or I need to use png images?

Answer 1

In Unicode, it is encoded at U+20BD ₽ RUBLE SIGN (HTML ₽ ). It can be entered on a Russian computer keyboard as AltGr + 8 on Windows and Linux, or AltGr + Р (Qwerty H position) on macOS.

Answer 2

Russia changed the Ruble symbol around 2013-12.

See the Wikipedia pages on Russian ruble and on Ruble sign for details.

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Unicode 7: U+20BD

The Unicode consortium officially designated a code point, U+20BD RUBLE SIGN, numbered 8,381 (decimal) and U+20BD (Unicode hex), for the new symbol in Unicode 7.0, released 2014-06-16. See the last entry in this Unicode chart of Currency Symbols (PDF).

Do not confuse this new character with either the Armenian letter ք or the Latin letter Ꝑ.

By the way, Unicode 7 also gained the manat used in Azerbaijan, U+20BC MANAT SIGN, ₼. More importantly, Unicode also got the Spock hand sign, Vulcan Salute, U+1F596,

Answer 3

You can read an extensive explanation here http://www.artlebedev.ru/tools/technogrette/html/rouble/

And you can use http://www.artlebedev.ru/kovodstvo/sections/159/rouble.otf

Answer 4

I'll add something to all the other answers: be careful to NOT mix up the new ruble sign with the similar looking but quite different "Philippine peso" sign, '₱', encoded at U+20B1.

Doing a <strike>P</strike> will, depending on the font, look more like the Philippine peso sign than the russian ruble sign.