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Topic: Bitcoin-Qt handling of non-BTC bitcoin: URIs (Read 909 times)

legendary
Activity: 2576
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October 05, 2011, 01:02:02 PM
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Per the old bitcoin: URI scheme, amounts should specify a unit. The current implementation of bitcoin-qt, however, only correctly handles amounts as BTC without a unit. What would be the ideal behaviour, in the community consensus, when encountering a URI that does specify a unit?

Previously I had suggested a units=  (e.g., units=mbtc), but there were reasonable arguments as to why that was not a good solution:
 - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.91910
Yes, that's why the URIs specify the units in a descriptive form rather than symbolic. Wink
legendary
Activity: 2506
Merit: 1010
Per the old bitcoin: URI scheme, amounts should specify a unit. The current implementation of bitcoin-qt, however, only correctly handles amounts as BTC without a unit. What would be the ideal behaviour, in the community consensus, when encountering a URI that does specify a unit?

Previously I had suggested a units=  (e.g., units=mbtc), but there were reasonable arguments as to why that was not a good solution:
 - https://bitcointalksearch.org/topic/m.91910
legendary
Activity: 2576
Merit: 1186
Per the old bitcoin: URI scheme, amounts should specify a unit. The current implementation of bitcoin-qt, however, only correctly handles amounts as BTC without a unit. What would be the ideal behaviour, in the community consensus, when encountering a URI that does specify a unit? (recall that the user opening these URIs is not the same person who created them)

Example URIs with units:
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