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I think that Keyboards Should have the Bitcoin symbol Already!

It has been 7 years now, and we still haven't seen the bitcoin symbol in keyboards or at least, if not a single key, a key combo for the BTC symbol.

It will be great if that's gonna be approve. It will also help promotes bitcoin ;D

There is a post around with a proposal to include the symbol in ANSI, I think. From them, it will be included in keyboards.

what would happen when you push the bitcoin button?

And eventhough i copied the bitcin symbol, i can't paste it on any editor (notepad, msoffice, star office, etc.,) it remains shows B (Capital B). But i can paste it on browser itself. :(

We don't even have a proper bitcoin unicode character yet.

Why would they add the Bitcoin symbol before other major world currencies? Looking at my keyboard now, the only currency symbol I see is the $. I don't see anything for the pound or euro (although that may be because I am in the US) which are more commonly used and have been around longer than Bitcoin has.

Nothing will happen! it will work like the dollar, the yen or the Euro symbol. Does something happens when you press those keys? hun?
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Before this can happen, bitcoin and microsoft must be co-operate together


When you see something new on keyboard that having BTC symbol, it may have something new feel that will increase bitcoin holder to trust bitcoin more than ever  :)

In some English dictionary the word "bitcoin" is not yet included as a word.
I guess bitcoin needs to be accepted, known and used by everybody first before it it can be added in keyboard

Take me to the day when there's a Bitcoin symbol on a key and if you keep pressing it fast enough it mines Bitcoin for you, then I'll be happy. Bearing in mind there aren't many keys to go around, I wonder which key people would be happy to sacrifice?

I'd get rid of the symbol above the six: ^

I barely use it.

I would rather get rid of the one above the 4  ::) Those legacy fiat symbols is sooo old news.  ;D
They could add a ASCI combination for it, if all keyboard options is filled. ê»ÿ╞ôö╣
It's a bit early to push for this, but we will get there, just give it some time ^tick tick tock^ See I have a use for the ^ symbol.  ;D

Yes but the users of keyboard are more as compared to bitcoins, so if there is a symbol of bitcoin on keyboard people would try to know what this symbol means? and that would be the beginning of knowing bitcoins as we all know that when we see something new we want to know what exactly it is? and if there is a symbol of bitcoin on keyboard than we would expect more users of bitcoins.

Well, some people are just good at incredibly stupid ideas
https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=60152.0

that is just not going to happen. at least we will not see a dedicated key like "alt+4"which is "$" because there is not enough usage for bitcoin and it will just become confusing for people who are using a computer and have no idea what that symbol is, and their number is not small to neglect.

the first thing that needs to happen is an official ascii code then maybe after a longer time and only if bitcoin becomes popular, it would get a dedicated key on the keyboard.

thats right it will only happen when bitcoin go in mainstream ..
but as of now there some member who already making a move about that..
so lets just hope that it will get accepted or wish for there success..

This has already been suggested by someone who actually did something to get it included to the Unicode Standard: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1170902.0
It seems that, whenever theres a thread about a new subject, other threads about the same subject appear.
I wonder why.... ::)

But keyboards lack other currency symbols already. Australasian keyboards have "$" but nothing else, my UK keyboard has "$", "£" and "€" (but nothing for the Swiss Franc or the Japanese Yen), etc.

I agree in principle, but I think it's going to be tough convincing keyboard manufacturers and regional standards organisations :(

Totally agree about the key combo, though. There's a post somewhere on bitcointalk about getting Bitcoin into Unicode, and I guess that that would be a necessary first step.

I propose for big companies to produce these keyboard something like this prototype:
http://thumbs.dreamstime.com/t/bitcoin-keyboard-sign-36745628.jpg

Bitcoin needs to get into Unicode first and get its symbol, like someone above has written. Then, we will get on keyboards as well. Don't worry about it, Bitcoin goes nowhere, it will be soon present everywhere! :)

By the way, someone has started procedure her on the forum, even made a thread about this problem. This person has already contacted the Unicode people. I guess this will be done soon.

Why should a normal keyboard have a symbol for bitcoin, I'm a major enthusiast of bitcoin but this is just outright ridiculous. It is not something people will keep using, well there's even BTC for it . But yeah including a unicode would be a good thing.

There is a thread regarding adding this https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1170902.0 which would be a great move forward.