Bitcoin Finally Gets an Approved Unicode Character Point
As obvious an oversight as it could be, attempting to type the bitcoin symbol via text, email, or on webpages is not the easiest thing. However, after a successful vote at the latest Unicode meeting, users will be able to easily type the character. The #Bitcoin sign is accepted by Unicode. My second addition to Unicode, probably more useful than the....
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An effort to better represent bitcoin as a symbol has been launched. The Unicode Ƀ symbol has been chosen by a website of industry members as a way to better legitimize bitcoin as a symbol both in print and online media. It is already an existing Unicode character under the non-profit corporation Unicode Consortium, which describes it as a "latin capital B with stroke" that has the hex Alt +0243. A number of bitcoin companies already use Ƀ as the symbol to denote bitcoin. They include ZeroBlock, Lamassu and Tip4Commit. The current bitcoin symbol. Bitcoin has long been denoted as B⃦,....
A proposal to add the bitcoin "B" to the Unicode computing character standard was accepted this week. Submitted by tech blogger and pencil-and-paper bitcoin miner Ken Shirriff, the proposal was approved during a quarterly meeting held by the Unicode Consortium, the organization backing the decades-old computing standard. Members of the Consortium include Apple, Google, Huawei, Microsoft, Oracle and a variety of other institutional and individual contributors. The organization was not immediately available for comment when reached. Shirriff's 14-page proposal was the second to be considered....
There was a mistake made in reporting Twitter-user @ken_lunde and Reddit-user 'kenshirriff' as the same person earlier. This is not true and the article has since been edited and updated. Sincere apologies to both Kens. The Bitcoin sign has been accepted by the Unicode Standard and will be included in a future version of Unicode. This is the Bitcoin symbol: ₿. It's a box right now but not long from now, a version of the Unicorn Standard in the future will ensure that refreshing this page at that point in time will have the Bitcoin font turning up instead. The recognition bestowed upon the....
The Bitcoin Foundation is looking for volunteers for its Standards Committee, which will be tasked with creating and adopting a bitcoin Unicode symbol. This committee will also examine denomination conventions, develop a recommended standard and deal with other, unspecified duties. Unicode symbol for bitcoin. The foundation started discussing the possibility of introducing a Unicode symbol for bitcoin last year. Numerous proposals were floated, ranging from '฿' (Thai Baht symbol) to 'Ƀ' (U+0243). Different variants of existing symbols were also proposed, alongside entirely new designs -....
The effort to get Bitcoin its own Unicode symbol just had a big setback, despite previous promises that it was accepted and many expected it to be included in this year’s upgrades. Why is Unicode’s Inclusion Important? Unicode is the official keeper of symbols for our computers and keyboards, such as $, @, and ~. Each started out as a picture first with....