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Title: Bitcoin-Qt handling of non-BTC bitcoin: URIs Post by: Luke-Jr on October 05, 2011, 04:03:18 PM Per the old bitcoin: URI scheme (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/URI_Scheme), amounts should specify a unit. The current implementation of bitcoin-qt, however, only correctly handles amounts as BTC without a unit. What would be the ideal behaviour, in the community consensus, when encountering a URI that does specify a unit? (recall that the user opening these URIs is not the same person who created them)
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Title: Re: Bitcoin-Qt handling of non-BTC bitcoin: URIs Post by: Stephen Gornick on October 05, 2011, 05:50:19 PM Per the old bitcoin: URI scheme (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/URI_Scheme), amounts should specify a unit. The current implementation of bitcoin-qt, however, only correctly handles amounts as BTC without a unit. What would be the ideal behaviour, in the community consensus, when encountering a URI that does specify a unit? Previously I had suggested a units= (e.g., units=mbtc), but there were reasonable arguments as to why that was not a good solution: - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6206.msg91910#msg91910 Title: Re: Bitcoin-Qt handling of non-BTC bitcoin: URIs Post by: Luke-Jr on October 05, 2011, 06:02:02 PM Per the old bitcoin: URI scheme (https://en.bitcoin.it/wiki/URI_Scheme), amounts should specify a unit. The current implementation of bitcoin-qt, however, only correctly handles amounts as BTC without a unit. What would be the ideal behaviour, in the community consensus, when encountering a URI that does specify a unit? Previously I had suggested a units= (e.g., units=mbtc), but there were reasonable arguments as to why that was not a good solution: - http://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=6206.msg91910#msg91910 |