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Title: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: BTCurious on October 31, 2011, 01:45:45 AM If you want to type the Bitcoin currency character easily, you can add it to your keyboard layout. I'd share my new layout, but I personally use the Colemak layout and no one is using that anyway, I guess.
You can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21476) (also works on windows 7) to edit it yourself. If people let me know what keyboard layout they use, and what location for the ฿ is the most convenient, I might fix up some installers tomorrow. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: dree12 on October 31, 2011, 02:01:10 AM If you want to type the Bitcoin currency character easily, you can add it to your keyboard layout. I'd share my new layout, but I personally use the Colemak layout and no one is using that anyway, I guess. I have the currency symbols assigned to AltGr on my Canadian French keyboard, but rather than using the baht sign (which I oppose), I use the three latin letters "BTC".You can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21476) (also works on windows 7) to edit it yourself. If people let me know what keyboard layout they use, and what location for the ฿ is the most convenient, I might fix up some installers tomorrow. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: BTCurious on October 31, 2011, 02:08:31 AM It seems the majority of users is using ฿ whenever a shorter version is needed, and it's also the winner of the poll (https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=369.0).
What's probably going to be more important in the eventual result, though, is that mtgox is using ฿. But of course you can do the same thing with Ƀ, or ฿©, or whatever you want. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: payb.tc on October 31, 2011, 02:10:29 AM If you want to type the Bitcoin currency character easily, you can add it to your keyboard layout. I'd share my new layout, but I personally use the Colemak layout and no one is using that anyway, I guess. You can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21476) (also works on windows 7) to edit it yourself. If people let me know what keyboard layout they use, and what location for the ฿ is the most convenient, I might fix up some installers tomorrow. how do you easily type this character: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23228112/%C9%83.png i still can't bring myself to deal in baht yet. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: dree12 on October 31, 2011, 02:26:49 AM If you want to type the Bitcoin currency character easily, you can add it to your keyboard layout. I'd share my new layout, but I personally use the Colemak layout and no one is using that anyway, I guess. You can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21476) (also works on windows 7) to edit it yourself. If people let me know what keyboard layout they use, and what location for the ฿ is the most convenient, I might fix up some installers tomorrow. how do you easily type this character: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/23228112/%C9%83.png i still can't bring myself to deal in baht yet. Code: Ƀ Code: Ƀ⃝ Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: BTCurious on October 31, 2011, 02:28:53 AM Code: Ƀ⃝ Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: dree12 on October 31, 2011, 11:58:00 AM Code: Ƀ⃝ I'm displaying it fine with Windows and the standard font set. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: BTCurious on October 31, 2011, 12:07:41 PM Windows 7, chrome, also standard font set I believe.
In firefox I see "฿O" (roughly), not combined. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: dree12 on October 31, 2011, 07:57:27 PM Windows 7, chrome, also standard font set I believe. Well maybe that isn't the best idea if firefox isn't displaying it right. IE does for me, though. And I believe that's what it should do, as the unicode specification indicates that it is a non-spacing character.In firefox I see "฿O" (roughly), not combined. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: Raoul Duke on October 31, 2011, 08:01:12 PM Why is it that i have the feeling that most of the persons who voted to use the Thai Baht symbol for Bitcoin are the same that gave Bruce a hard time because of the conference in Pataya? ::)
Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: BitcoinPorn on October 31, 2011, 08:06:00 PM This doesn't show properly for me… (It shows as Ƀ square) Same for me. Here comes the btc-baht hate train lol. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: Steve on October 31, 2011, 08:35:59 PM On Mac OSX, I made it such that when I type the sequence "$" "B" that it creates the ฿ currency symbol. You can do that in System Preferences > Language & Text > Text. Once you've created the substitution, you may need to enable it in apps that don't have it turned on by default (i.e. Safari…you can often find the option to enable it under Edit > Substitutions > Text Replacement).
Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: casascius on October 31, 2011, 08:37:40 PM I think the official Bitcoin symbol should be the Baht but with two lines, and I will keep using the Baht symbol until Unicode gives us a Bitcoin symbol.
If Steve Jobs can add "steaming pile of poo" to Unicode (http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm) then I am sure we will eventually get our own Unicode symbol when the world realizes we are here to stay and are not just tulip mania. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: Red Emerald on October 31, 2011, 10:55:59 PM On Mac OSX, I made it such that when I type the sequence "$" "B" that it creates the ฿ currency symbol. You can do that in System Preferences > Language & Text > Text. Once you've created the substitution, you may need to enable it in apps that don't have it turned on by default (i.e. Safari…you can often find the option to enable it under Edit > Substitutions > Text Replacement). Great idea. Too bad chrome doesn't seem to support this. I looked at TextExpander, but its $35 :( It also doesn't seem to do anything until you hit space. Which means you have to type "$B[space][delete]123" for ฿123 Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: MatthewLM on November 01, 2011, 12:45:51 AM BTC
That was hard, typing three characters. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: BTCurious on November 01, 2011, 12:50:40 AM ฿
Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: payb.tc on November 01, 2011, 01:31:49 AM BTC That was hard, typing three characters. how about http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRqUB7CPkNM_NJBm4XWXLOPQE5VbNAwPZN4NuBnspITcW-_6lh0QQhttp://www.durack.edu.au/SiteCollectionImages/thumbs/news/tea.jpghttp://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/71075_99043916487_3894916_q.jpg Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: cypherdoc on November 01, 2011, 01:44:05 AM If you want to type the Bitcoin currency character easily, you can add it to your keyboard layout. I'd share my new layout, but I personally use the Colemak layout and no one is using that anyway, I guess. You can download the Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator (http://www.microsoft.com/download/en/details.aspx?id=21476) (also works on windows 7) to edit it yourself. If people let me know what keyboard layout they use, and what location for the is ฿the most convenient, I might fix up some installers tomorrow. i use a MacBook Pro. it would be cool to use the $ sign for ฿ in Chrome Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: BTCurious on November 01, 2011, 01:45:26 AM Steve (a few posts up) mentioned how you can use mac's autoreplace to do something like that.
Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: cypherdoc on November 01, 2011, 01:46:44 AM Steve (a few posts up) mentioned how you can use mac's autoreplace to do something like that. i got stuck at the part where he says "substitution". Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: BTCurious on November 01, 2011, 02:32:12 AM In System Preferences > Language & Text > Text, there should be a list of "substitutions". OSX will automatically substitute a few characters by a new character, if it's in the list.
You can add a new one there, for example "$B" into "฿". OSX will then change "$B" into "฿" if it encounters it. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: cypherdoc on November 01, 2011, 05:27:22 AM In System Preferences > Language & Text > Text, there should be a list of "substitutions". OSX will automatically substitute a few characters by a new character, if it's in the list. You can add a new one there, for example "$B" into "฿". OSX will then change "$B" into "฿" if it encounters it. doesn't work in Chrome or Safari for me. >:( Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: d.james on November 01, 2011, 07:32:37 AM I demand an official logo change!
http://i43.tinypic.com/zlp0rp.jpg This is too funny I had to spend 5min photoshopping. BTC That was hard, typing three characters. how about http://t0.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:ANd9GcRqUB7CPkNM_NJBm4XWXLOPQE5VbNAwPZN4NuBnspITcW-_6lh0QQhttp://www.durack.edu.au/SiteCollectionImages/thumbs/news/tea.jpghttp://profile.ak.fbcdn.net/hprofile-ak-snc4/71075_99043916487_3894916_q.jpg Rofl I'm glad someone else can find humor in this ridiculousness. I couldn't give a flying fuck what a bunch of anonymous cumsocks agree to on a poll. There is no bitcoin nation, no bitcoin standards organization, and stealing a symbol of a random country. Without a standards organization in place to represent bitcoin, you will not get anything added as a currency symbol, and as for just adding a symbol, pay the fee and wait a year. Stop destroying the 'integrity' (tongue in cheek) of bitcoin by using the baht symbol you tards. Rules don't change for everything just because 'bitcoin'. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: payb.tc on November 01, 2011, 08:01:35 AM I demand an official logo change! http://i43.tinypic.com/zlp0rp.jpg This is too funny I had to spend 5min photoshopping. hahaha i love it. Title: Re: ฿ <- Add this character to your keyboard with Keyboard Layout Creator Post by: Matthew N. Wright on November 01, 2011, 08:53:14 AM I demand an official logo change! http://i43.tinypic.com/zlp0rp.jpg This is too funny I had to spend 5min photoshopping. This. Someone should stencil this and submit it as the counter proposal to the Unicode Consortium. |
