Ken and team, Took some time but here it is ! *Bravo !* And as usual reporter make up the shit they want ... Feel free to remind them that we had a working group and we worked on it. https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/20/15840008/new-emoji- unicode-consortium-version-10-bitcoin-symbol The "Could be" is a bit too much. It's time we keep reporter in check so feel free to remind her in your own way. My way is "pissed off tweet", https://twitter.com/TheoBitcoin/status/ 877277497796198400 but used your own way. A page is officially turned. Regards, Theo On Tue, Sep 8, 2015 at 5:05 PM, Ken Shirriff via bitcoin-dev < bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org> wrote: > > > 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 vertical bar. >> > > Actually that page argues that using the Thai Bhat currency symbol *for* > Bitcoin causes confusion. From the page you linked to: > > The Thai Baht (฿ ) is sometimes > used to represent Bitcoin, but this certainly raises a problem of > differenciation between the Thai Baht and Bitcoin. > > Their main motivation for using the horizontal-bar Ƀ (which they admit is > a hack) is they consider adding a character to Unicode to be a "really long > and complicated process". My view is that adding the bitcoin sign to > Unicode avoids confusion with the Thai Baht, avoids hacks such as Ƀ, and > lets everyone use the standard symbol. Hopefully it won't be a really long > and complicated process... > > Ken > > >> I'm not terribly fond of the B-with-horizontal-bar as a symbol, but it >> does have the advantage that it is already in the Unicode glyph set, >> already available on most Unicode enabled devices. >> >> -Danny >> >> On Sat, Sep 5, 2015 at 7:11 AM, 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 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 with the process and think this has a good chance of succeeding. >>> The proposal is at http://righto.com/bitcoin-unicode.pdf >>> >>> I received a suggestion to run this proposal by the bitcoin-dev group, >>> so I hope this email is appropriate here. Endorsement by Bitcoin developers >>> will help the Unicode Committee realize the importance of adding this >>> symbol, so please let me know if you support this proposal. >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Ken >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> bitcoin-dev mailing list >>> bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org >>> https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev >>> >>> >> > > _______________________________________________ > bitcoin-dev mailing list > bitcoin-dev@lists.linuxfoundation.org > https://lists.linuxfoundation.org/mailman/listinfo/bitcoin-dev > >