The Thai Baht (฿) has always been the most frequently used Bitcoin symbol right? - page 2.

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Quote from: teknohog on October 11, 2012, 01:11:20 AM

Quote from: dree12 on October 10, 2012, 08:57:07 PM

Quote from: irritant on October 10, 2012, 07:33:16 PM

ß

It's not "Sitcoin", it's Bitcoin.

To me that looks like the Greek letter Beta, which is just a "b" in pronunciation.

It might also be the German Eszett, but good fonts usually make the difference clear. It is a combination of a long s (like the integral sign) and short s (our usual s), and knowing this makes it easy to spot the difference. Of course, many basic fonts use beta for both, and we can only tell from context which one is intended.

It's a sharp s (i.e. eszett).

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Quote from: irritant on October 10, 2012, 07:33:16 PM

Ƀ

I like this one.

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Unicode is indeed a strange and weird beast ...

So I wandered off and found a TTF which supports U+20E6 (Code2000) and install it. After doing so all my other fonts "miraculously" start supporting that character. *Sigh*.

So even though Firefox doesn't use Code2000, it now displays the official sign correctly. For those interested, the version I installed is here.

Edit: Firefox is still not displaying it correctly, but Code2000 does make it work in Emacs and LibreOffice, which is good enough for most of my use.

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 10, 2012, 07:26:15 PM

Quote from: zef on October 10, 2012, 05:55:51 PM

this one is my personal favorite for bitcoin symbol. It even looks like a coin.
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/24b7/index.htm

B⃦⃝ :p

Now here's a weird thing. You're obviously using three code points this time and my system successfully places the circle around the second code point, but that second code point is still a box with the hex code in it. So it supports doubling, just not with the double-stroke you're normally pushing.

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Quote from: dree12 on October 10, 2012, 07:30:19 PM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 10, 2012, 07:26:15 PM

Quote from: zef on October 10, 2012, 05:55:51 PM

this one is my personal favorite for bitcoin symbol. It even looks like a coin.
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/24b7/index.htm

B⃦⃝ :p

I believe the B in circle is a compatibility character and is deprecated. B⃝ is displayed identically and should be used instead.

A dumb question perhaps, but is the lowercase version also deprecated? ⓑ

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Quote from: dree12 on October 10, 2012, 08:57:07 PM

Quote from: irritant on October 10, 2012, 07:33:16 PM

ß

It's not "Sitcoin", it's Bitcoin.

To me that looks like the Greek letter Beta, which is just a "b" in pronunciation.

It might also be the German Eszett, but good fonts usually make the difference clear. It is a combination of a long s (like the integral sign) and short s (our usual s), and knowing this makes it easy to spot the difference. Of course, many basic fonts use beta for both, and we can only tell from context which one is intended.

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Quote from: deadserious on October 10, 2012, 09:24:23 PM

I honestly don't get the problem with using the Thai Baht (฿).

The resuse confusion argument holds no water given with how many times the dollar sign ($) is reused.

Then I suppose if we use the $ sign for Bitcoin, we'll fit right in?

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I honestly don't get the problem with using the Thai Baht (฿).

The resuse confusion argument holds no water given with how many times the dollar sign ($) is reused.

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Quote from: irritant on October 10, 2012, 07:33:16 PM

ß

It's not "Sitcoin", it's Bitcoin.

Quote from: irritant on October 10, 2012, 07:33:16 PM

฿

Bitcoin is not a baht.

Quote from: irritant on October 10, 2012, 07:33:16 PM

Ƀ

Okay. The only beef I have with this is that it looks nothing like the most commonly used symbol.

Quote from: irritant on October 10, 2012, 07:33:16 PM

Б

Unusual and confusing for Russian speakers. We don't use "B" as a Bitcoin symbol, so using a Cyrillic version of it is not justified.

Quote from: irritant on October 10, 2012, 07:33:16 PM

Ъ

There is no "B" in this symbol.

Quote from: irritant on October 10, 2012, 07:33:16 PM

Ѣ

Okay, but does not look like a "B".

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Sodium hypochlorite, acetone, ethanol

ß, ฿, Ƀ, Б, Ъ, Ѣ

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 10, 2012, 07:26:15 PM

Quote from: zef on October 10, 2012, 05:55:51 PM

this one is my personal favorite for bitcoin symbol. It even looks like a coin.
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/24b7/index.htm

B⃦⃝ :p

I believe the B in circle is a compatibility character and is deprecated. B⃝ is displayed identically and should be used instead.

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Quote from: zef on October 10, 2012, 05:55:51 PM

this one is my personal favorite for bitcoin symbol. It even looks like a coin.
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/24b7/index.htm

B⃦⃝ :p

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this one is my personal favorite for bitcoin symbol. It even looks like a coin.
http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/24b7/index.htm

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Quote from: helloworld on October 10, 2012, 01:03:29 AM

Quote from: Hasimir on October 07, 2012, 04:51:10 PM

OS X 10.5.8

Shouldn't that say OS X.5.8?

You might think that, but no:

System Software Overview:

System Version: Mac OS X 10.5.8 (9L30)
Kernel Version: Darwin 9.8.0

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Quote from: Hasimir on October 07, 2012, 04:51:10 PM

OS X 10.5.8

Shouldn't that say OS X.5.8?

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I grin when reading this thread...
We use lots of combining character in the script of our language,
finally someone else feel the pain caused by incompetent browsers/editors/OS/rendering systems...
I would supprt the Capital B with Double Vertical Stroke Overlay with hoping that
everybody cares will push their browser/editor/OS/RS/... makers to move ahead Grin

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Quote from: GenTarkin on October 09, 2012, 11:25:00 AM

I think it has been the most used for BTC =)

Please stay on topic!

… yeah, my first computer … we upgraded it from 64kB to 374kB

Guess it's time for a Ƀ-Poll Wink

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Quote from: crazy_rabbit on October 09, 2012, 07:45:11 AM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 07, 2012, 05:29:55 PM

Quote from: Hasimir on October 07, 2012, 04:51:10 PM

OS X 10.5.8

So, an OS that is now 5 years old and beyond end of life (no more security fixes). You shouldn't even be allowed online with that.

So I guess I can't run Bitcoin on my Apple IIgs?
http://www.geeks.org/~taubert/gstcp/

I've got some old Sun SPARCs and a C64 around here somewhere, so I guess they're out too.

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I think it has been the most used for BTC =)

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 09, 2012, 09:16:56 AM

Quote from: FLHippy on October 09, 2012, 09:12:27 AM

It's amazing how many commodores and apples still exist and work. Excluding hard drives, floppy drives and the like.

Every one of the laptops I have owned eventually shit the bed yet I still have a working Commodore 4plus, apple IIe, Commodore 64, pong, and the atari 2600 (Sears version), Wyse terminal, VT100 terminal, and more geeky old shit that used a lot of power. I hold on to a 13 inch color tv just to plug these things in, wait tens of minutes for it to start and 10s more minutes to load a game just so we can point and laugh at an 8 bit world. (Loaded from cassette with a modern boom box, holy shit, those things are 32 years old and they still work)

Back then, they built computers to last. Who wants to pay $20,000 for a piece of equipment that dies in a few years? Nowadays, people replace their computers so often for upgrades that it doesn't really make sense to build them to last more than a few years.

Not to mention, modern electronics are incredibly complicated compared to old pong machines and commodores. Lots more bits and pieces crammed into smaller spaces with more heat to dissipate.

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