Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal to add the bitcoin symbol to Unicode

2015-09-08 Thread Danny Thorpe via bitcoin-dev
What of this prior effort, proposing B-with-horizontal-bar (Ƀ)? http://bitcoinsymbol.org/ They argue that B-with-2-vertical-bars is easily confused with the Thai Bhat currency symbol, which is a B with a single vertical bar. I'm not terribly fond of the B-with-horizontal-bar as a symbol, but it

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal to add the bitcoin symbol to Unicode

2015-09-08 Thread Ken Shirriff via bitcoin-dev
On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 1:28 PM, Danny Thorpe wrote: > What of this prior effort, proposing B-with-horizontal-bar (Ƀ)? > http://bitcoinsymbol.org/ > > They argue that B-with-2-vertical-bars is easily confused with the Thai > Bhat currency symbol, which is a B with a single

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal to add the bitcoin symbol to Unicode

2015-09-06 Thread Peter Todd via bitcoin-dev
On Sat, Sep 05, 2015 at 07:11:27AM -0700, Ken Shirriff via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Use of the bitcoin symbol in text is inconvenient, because the bitcoin > symbol isn't in the Unicode standard. To fix this, I've written a proposal > to have the common B-with-vertical-bars bitcoin symbol added to

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal to add the bitcoin symbol to Unicode

2015-09-05 Thread Andreas Schildbach via bitcoin-dev
Very cool! Thanks for tackling this. On 09/05/2015 04:11 PM, Ken Shirriff via bitcoin-dev wrote: > Use of the bitcoin symbol in text is inconvenient, because the bitcoin > symbol isn't in the Unicode standard. To fix this, I've written a > proposal to have the common B-with-vertical-bars bitcoin

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal to add the bitcoin symbol to Unicode

2015-09-05 Thread Theo Chino via bitcoin-dev
Ken, What do I do to second and join you ? Theo Chino New York On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 4:11 PM, Ken Shirriff via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > Use of the bitcoin symbol in text is inconvenient, because the bitcoin > symbol isn't in the Unicode standard. To fix

Re: [bitcoin-dev] Proposal to add the bitcoin symbol to Unicode

2015-09-05 Thread Richard Moore via bitcoin-dev
This might also be a useful page to look at: https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/Bitcoin_symbol RicMoo Sent from my self-aware iPhone .·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸¸.·´¯`·.¸><(((º> Richard Moore ~ Founder Genetic Mistakes Software Inc. phone: (778) 882-6125 email: ric...@geneticmistakes.com www:

[bitcoin-dev] Proposal to add the bitcoin symbol to Unicode

2015-09-05 Thread Ken Shirriff via bitcoin-dev
Use of the bitcoin symbol in text is inconvenient, because the bitcoin symbol isn't in the Unicode standard. To fix this, I've written a proposal to have the common B-with-vertical-bars bitcoin symbol added to Unicode. I've successfully proposed a new character for Unicode before, so I'm familiar