Author: Danny Thorpe 2015-09-08 20:28:41
Published on: 2015-09-08T20:28:41+00:00
Ken Shirriff proposed to add the common B-with-vertical-bars bitcoin symbol to Unicode, as the current use of the bitcoin symbol in text is inconvenient due to its absence from Unicode. The proposal can be found at http://righto.com/bitcoin-unicode.pdf. Shirriff has successfully proposed a new character for Unicode before and thinks this has a good chance of succeeding. However, he received a suggestion to run this proposal by the Bitcoin-dev group, so he hopes his email is appropriate here. Endorsement by Bitcoin developers will help the Unicode Committee realize the importance of adding this symbol. The B-with-2-vertical-bars is easily confused with the Thai Bhat currency symbol, which is a B with a single vertical bar. Bitcoinsymbol.org previously proposed B-with-horizontal-bar (Ƀ), which is already in the Unicode glyph set and available on most Unicode enabled devices. Danny, however, is not fond of B-with-horizontal-bar as a symbol.
Updated on: 2023-06-10T22:10:08.243647+00:00