The Thai Baht (฿) has always been the most frequently used Bitcoin symbol right? - page 9.

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 03, 2012, 12:16:54 PM

Quote from: SgtSpike on October 03, 2012, 12:08:57 PM

Uh, guys... what am I missing here?

A working web browser, perhaps. Or maybe it's a font issue with your system.

Not everyone enjoys Windows loading several gigabytes of fonts on startup. I am running the latest Chrome on a minimal WinXP Pro, and these are boxes for me:
Ƀ
Ƀ

The Thai Baht works for me. So does the custom font BTC, but that's a silly thing for a standard, unless I'm the only one who uses IRC, Wikipedia, plaintext email...

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 03, 2012, 02:01:51 PM

Quote from: Shawshank on October 03, 2012, 01:39:02 PM

Luke-Jr, if you go to Tools/Encoding in your Chrome browser while in Wikipedia, you should have the UTF-8 option checked. Is that so?

I'm not the one having problems...

This guy is a nut. Plain and simple. Awhile back he added a Tonal number section to the Bitcoin article.

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Quote from: Shawshank on October 03, 2012, 01:39:02 PM

Yes, I believe there is something wrong in the configuration of the UTF-8 encoding/charset in the users' browser. HowardStrong's proposal looks fine on both my Internet Explorer and Chrome. Luke-Jr's proposal looks OK in my Internet Explorer, but doesn't look right in Chrome.

Luke-Jr, if you go to Tools/Encoding in your Chrome browser while in Wikipedia, you should have the UTF-8 option checked. Is that so?

Just to be sure, I've gone through ALL character encodings in Chrome. Lukes character is displayed in none.

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 03, 2012, 02:01:51 PM

I'm not the one having problems...

is that a general statement? Grin

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Quote from: Shawshank on October 03, 2012, 01:39:02 PM

Luke-Jr, if you go to Tools/Encoding in your Chrome browser while in Wikipedia, you should have the UTF-8 option checked. Is that so?

I'm not the one having problems...

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Yes, I believe there is something wrong in the configuration of the UTF-8 encoding/charset in the users' browser. HowardStrong's proposal looks fine on both my Internet Explorer and Chrome. Luke-Jr's proposal looks OK in my Internet Explorer, but doesn't look right in Chrome.

Luke-Jr, if you go to Tools/Encoding in your Chrome browser while in Wikipedia, you should have the UTF-8 option checked. Is that so?

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Quote from: cbeast on October 03, 2012, 09:38:42 AM

I kinda like Ƀ

Alt +0243

Ƀ

There hasn't been much disagreement that Ƀ, the "Latin capital letter B with stroke" (Alt+0243) is a pretty decent symbol to use going forward.

- http://www.ecogex.com/bitcoin/
- http://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_symbol

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Quote from: greyhawk on October 03, 2012, 12:18:58 PM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 03, 2012, 12:16:54 PM

Quote from: SgtSpike on October 03, 2012, 12:08:57 PM

Uh, guys... what am I missing here?

A working web browser, perhaps.

Explain to me how Chrome 22.0.1229.79 m is not a working browser?

Chromium 21.0.1180.89 works fine here.

Quote from: SgtSpike on October 03, 2012, 12:21:48 PM

More to the point, I can see the other symbols here just fine. If B⃦ is supposed to be the best symbol, and I (and others) cannot see it properly on standard systems, perhaps it would be better to move to a different symbol that IS displayed properly on a standard system.

Images seem to be working fine until mainstream fonts are updated. Thankfully, we also have webfonts now.

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Quote from: greyhawk on October 03, 2012, 12:18:58 PM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 03, 2012, 12:16:54 PM

Quote from: SgtSpike on October 03, 2012, 12:08:57 PM

Uh, guys... what am I missing here?

A working web browser, perhaps.

Explain to me how Chrome 22.0.1229.79 m is not a working browser?

More to the point, I can see the other symbols here just fine. If B⃦ is supposed to be the best symbol, and I (and others) cannot see it properly on standard systems, perhaps it would be better to move to a different symbol that IS displayed properly on a standard system.

I am on Firefox BTW.

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Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 03, 2012, 12:16:54 PM

Quote from: SgtSpike on October 03, 2012, 12:08:57 PM

Uh, guys... what am I missing here?

A working web browser, perhaps.

Explain to me how Chrome 22.0.1229.79 m is not a working browser?

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Quote from: SgtSpike on October 03, 2012, 12:08:57 PM

Uh, guys... what am I missing here?

A working web browser, perhaps. Or maybe it's a font issue with your system.

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Quote from: SgtSpike on October 03, 2012, 12:08:57 PM

Uh, guys... what am I missing here?

A font entry for 0x20E6

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Nice to see that now my 2 fav trolls keep each other entertained in a wiki-edit-war.

greyhawk

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This looks pretty dumb. Is it a Bbox ?

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Uh, guys... what am I missing here?

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Not a fan of ฿.

More a fan of Ƀ.

http://www.ecogex.com/bitcoin/

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Quote from: shamoons on October 03, 2012, 11:39:05 AM

My vote is for the Thai Baht. It's clean, elegant and standard.

This isn't a vote; B⃦ has been the standard symbol since the beginning, and there is no good reason to change that. This is just Atlas trying to turn Bitcoin into mere "Silk Road currency".

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My vote is for the Thai Baht. It's clean, elegant and standard.

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This is what I see:

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Quote from: Atlas on October 03, 2012, 09:25:52 AM

Luke-Jr keeps changing it to some weird Russian symbol nobody uses on Wikipedia. It probably shows up as the Baht for him or something.

Um, no, I changed it to the symbol every major Bitcoin website uses - including bitcoin.org, bitcoincharts, and these forums - at least in their favicon: B⃦
This is the standard Unicode symbol used for the B with double vertical strokes.

The forum has BTC using some CSS (embedded fonts) to workaround the fact that major fonts don't render it as nice, but it is the same symbol.

Quote from: Atlas on October 03, 2012, 09:25:52 AM

Anyways, we generally use the Thai Baht for Bitcoins, right?

฿ <- that right there

You must be confusing Bitcoin with Silk Road.

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