Bitcoin symbol accepted for Unicode

[spud21]

I can't wait for the day that the BTC symbol replaces the dollar symbol on my keyboard. Everyone will be using bitcoin by then. This is the start of the whirlwind to main street, when it gets integrated into the established systems like unicode.

[Parazyd]

I can't wait for the day that the BTC symbol replaces the dollar symbol on my keyboard. Everyone will be using bitcoin by then. This is the start of the whirlwind to main street, when it gets integrated into the established systems like unicode.

LOL
How will we code if we have no $ sign on our keyboards?

[mexxer-2]

I can't wait for the day that the BTC symbol replaces the dollar symbol on my keyboard. Everyone will be using bitcoin by then. This is the start of the whirlwind to main street, when it gets integrated into the established systems like unicode.

LOL
How will we code if we have no $ sign on our keyboards?

Hehe, devs must be having a nightmare from this news. Who knows when BTC might replace $

[afriezalie]

Great news. Happy to hear this. I hope we will see bitcoin unicode symbol in key map soon. I can't find bitcoin symbol shortcut in my keyboard . Price is increasing!!!

[Parazyd]

I can't wait for the day that the BTC symbol replaces the dollar symbol on my keyboard. Everyone will be using bitcoin by then. This is the start of the whirlwind to main street, when it gets integrated into the established systems like unicode.

LOL
How will we code if we have no $ sign on our keyboards?

Hehe, devs must be having a nightmare from this news. Who knows when BTC might replace $

Gave me a funny idea... Forking JavaScript and beginning to use BTC instead of $

[unamis76]

You guys are thinking way ahead, and that's awesome! Would definitely love to see BTC on my keyboard...

[7788bitcoin]

Another thumbs up from me! Hopefully this will not only standardize the use of the symbol and ready for mainstream to arrive!

[pereira4]

Does it mean we will be able to use it on Android smartphones too? Because im really slow at digital typing and I hate to put "BTC" all the time. I would love to just press on a symbol so people know im talking about BTC. Saves a lot of time and is way more stylish than using 3 big letters. No one says USD 1000 when you can say $1000 right.

[Parazyd]

Does it mean we will be able to use it on Android smartphones too? Because im really slow at digital typing and I hate to put "BTC" all the time. I would love to just press on a symbol so people know im talking about BTC. Saves a lot of time and is way more stylish than using 3 big letters. No one says USD 1000 when you can say $1000 right.

U+20BF is now official. It's just a matter of time before the font maintainers put it in their fonts. I'm guessing very soon.

[--Encrypted--]

this is a great news! thanks to the people who made this possible. won't be long before we will be seeing the bitcoin symbol on our keyboards now.

[notbatman]

http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/03/bitcoin-is-getting-its-own-unicode-symbol/

BTC=U+20BF

[Parazyd]

http://venturebeat.com/2015/11/03/bitcoin-is-getting-its-own-unicode-symbol/

BTC=U+20BF

But you're still using the BBcode

[UserVVIP]

This is awesome! How we wont have to use the btc tags on the forums anymore!

[AltcoinInvestor]

Hopefully small bits of good news will keep rolling in so we can keep pumping the price of bitcoins :O

[LZ]

Let's wait for a new version of Unicode.

[kens]

U+20BF is now official. It's just a matter of time before the font maintainers put it in their fonts. I'm guessing very soon.

Unicode 9.0 will be released in June, so you probably won't see official fonts released before then. If you just want a font to play around with, luke-jr has made a font with the Bitcoin symbol in its official place here: https://www.reddit.com/r/Bitcoin/comments/3refb4/btc_symbol_added_to_droid_and_console_fonts/

In any case, thank you to the bitcointalk.org participants who helped me with the proposal - the original thread is here if you're curious: https://bitcointalk.org/index.php?topic=1170902

Ken

[freedomno1]

Thanks for sharing another piece of good news, I'll be looking forward to the next sets of characters in Unicode
And looking at the post above good work

[zPanda]

Definitely a step forward for Bitcoin.

[LZ]

It seems that Unicode guys will list it here soon.

http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/Unicode-9.0/

[SerenaL]

That is really cool. Hopefully we will be seeing people everywhere posting in BTCBTCBTC