Topic: Proposal to add Bitcoin symbol to Unicode (Read 5557 times)
I'm happy to see that someone finally did something about this! And I might say your work is great! I guess the community ows you man!
Thanks everyone in this thread for your support and helping get BTC into Unicode! Special thanks to runpaint for digging up a bunch of usage examples - that made a big difference.
Ken
Ken
Well I was just going to tell everyone that Bitcoin is being added to Unicode, but now I have to brag about it and take credit too
Thanks everyone in this thread for your support and helping get BTC into Unicode! Special thanks to runpaint for digging up a bunch of usage examples - that made a big difference.
Ken
Ken
This is really great news. Thanks to Ken and everyone for making this happen. Unicode now seems to appreciate that Bitcoin is no fly-by-night phenomenon. We've been around for years and we deserve a proper encoding for our symbol
Putting this here for the near furture when the forum's font support it:
^^fail
I don't seem to be able to copy the non-printing character into this text box
Thanks everyone in this thread for your support and helping get BTC into Unicode! Special thanks to runpaint for digging up a bunch of usage examples - that made a big difference.
Ken
Ken
Great work, Ken! Having a Bitcoin Unicode will add lot of ease to web developer developing Bitcoin related application.
I dont know the bars look like jail bars, I prefer a design where the bars don't go through the 'B' but only shows outside of it.
I prefer the ' BTC ' logo as the one to be. Its pretty solid.
I prefer the ' BTC ' logo as the one to be. Its pretty solid.
Oh, I mean that I will be happy when the glyph that was made
by theymos will appear in the next Unicode version as U+20BF.
It is becoming a reality thanks to the effort of Ken Shirriff.
Okay, who among is goin' be the first to get U20BF as their licence plate number?
I dont know the bars look like jail bars, I prefer a design where the bars don't go through the 'B' but only shows outside of it.
I prefer the ' BTC ' logo as the one to be. Its pretty solid.
I prefer the ' BTC ' logo as the one to be. Its pretty solid.
Oh, I mean that I will be happy when the glyph that was made
by theymos will appear in the next Unicode version as U+20BF.
It is becoming a reality thanks to the effort of Ken Shirriff.
Well done. It's about time Bitcoin got some font recognition.
Also saw someone on Twitter complain how they do not approve of the symbol. They seem to miss that the symbol already is. Adding it to Unicode is just an acceptance that this is an actual symbol being used in the world.
Also saw someone on Twitter complain how they do not approve of the symbol. They seem to miss that the symbol already is. Adding it to Unicode is just an acceptance that this is an actual symbol being used in the world.
Cool retweeted.
So I will be really happy when this new symbol will appear.
Ken Shirriff, thank you!
I dont know the bars look like jail bars, I prefer a design where the bars don't go through the 'B' but only shows outside of it.
I prefer the ' BTC ' logo as the one to be. Its pretty solid.
Nearly five years ago I proposed for our community to use
COMBINING DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE OVERLAY (U+20E6).
Here it is in FreeMono (U+0042 and U+20E6).
As you can see, this option has some significant problems:
So I will be really happy when this new symbol will appear.
Ken Shirriff, thank you!
COMBINING DOUBLE VERTICAL STROKE OVERLAY (U+20E6).
Here it is in FreeMono (U+0042 and U+20E6).
As you can see, this option has some significant problems:
- you need some typeface that supports Unicode 6.0;
- anyway, it almost never displayed in a suitable form.
So I will be really happy when this new symbol will appear.
Ken Shirriff, thank you!
That was relatively fast, in terms of committees.
Get ready to be able to tell people that their computer already has a Bitcoin symbol.
Get ready to be able to tell people that their computer already has a Bitcoin symbol.
It has been approved!
https://twitter.com/ken_lunde/status/661351862155669506
Now all the font designers can start submitting the symbol to be added to their favorite font!
https://twitter.com/ken_lunde/status/661351862155669506
Now all the font designers can start submitting the symbol to be added to their favorite font!
Well done. It's about time Bitcoin got some font recognition.
Also saw someone on Twitter complain how they do not approve of the symbol. They seem to miss that the symbol already is. Adding it to Unicode is just an acceptance that this is an actual symbol being used in the world.
It has been approved!
https://twitter.com/ken_lunde/status/661351862155669506
Now all the font designers can start submitting the symbol to be added to their favorite font!
https://twitter.com/ken_lunde/status/661351862155669506
Now all the font designers can start submitting the symbol to be added to their favorite font!
It seems a good proposal for the bitcoin growth to scale another milestone.... 
Btw. you can currently write ฿ with Ctrl+Shift+u, then 0e3f followed by space in Linux and Alt+0E3F in Windows.
I have ฿ on my keyboard. Just have to change my local to Thai and press Shift+7. It's also printed on the keycap for extra convenience. (All keycaps have both international and Thai stickers)
How can i have it too, should i install any addition app? I would be really happy to have ฿ on my keyboard
In Windows:
-> Control Panel -> Clock, Language, and Region -> Language
Click add a language. Add Thai.
Use language bar to switch to Thai input language, and voilà. Now you can type Thai letters easily.
I searched in google for the Tai keyboard and seems that is not useful for me :
http://learn-thai-podcast.com/lessons/thaikeyboard2.jpg
Thank you for writing a proposal Unicode Consotium to add Bitcoin symbol to the Unicode standard. I hope to see a Bitcoin Unicode soon so that Theymos will no longer need to use special font of the Bitcoin symbol.
I wish you luck in your endeavor, but I feel like until Bitcoin gains a lot more traction, something as big as unicode isn't going to let a bitcoin symbol be put in.
Btw. you can currently write ฿ with Ctrl+Shift+u, then 0e3f followed by space in Linux and Alt+0E3F in Windows.
I have ฿ on my keyboard. Just have to change my local to Thai and press Shift+7. It's also printed on the keycap for extra convenience. (All keycaps have both international and Thai stickers)
How can i have it too, should i install any addition app? I would be really happy to have ฿ on my keyboard
In Windows:
-> Control Panel -> Clock, Language, and Region -> Language
Click add a language. Add Thai.
Use language bar to switch to Thai input language, and voilà. Now you can type Thai letters easily.
Btw. you can currently write ฿ with Ctrl+Shift+u, then 0e3f followed by space in Linux and Alt+0E3F in Windows.
I have ฿ on my keyboard. Just have to change my local to Thai and press Shift+7. It's also printed on the keycap for extra convenience. (All keycaps have both international and Thai stickers)
How can i have it too, should i install any addition app? I would be really happy to have ฿ on my keyboard
Btw. you can currently write ฿ with Ctrl+Shift+u, then 0e3f followed by space in Linux and Alt+0E3F in Windows.
I have ฿ on my keyboard. Just have to change my local to Thai and press Shift+7. It's also printed on the keycap for extra convenience. (All keycaps have both international and Thai stickers)
I'm all in for this proposal. it would simply great to have the BTC accessible in any system.
I think that this should have already been made long time ago!
I think that this should have already been made long time ago!
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