Unicode Consortium Adds Official Bitcoin
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Unicode Consortium Adds Official Bitcoin "B" Symbol

THELOGICALINDIAN - On June 20 the Unicode Consortium appear new adaptation 100 They assuredly added the bitcoin attribute to their cipher Now users can blazon the B attribute with their keyboards The adapted adaptation has 8518 new characters with a absolute of 136690 The Unicode armpit additionally mentions they accept new scrips and emoji characters

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The armpit reads, “Unicode 10.0 adds 8,518 characters, for a absolute of Unicode Consortium Adds Official Bitcoin "B" Symbol136,690 characters. These additions accommodate 4 new scripts, for a absolute of 139 scripts, as able-bodied as 56 new emoji characters.”

On the Unicode page, the website had bitcoin beneath a appropriate area that apprehend “important attribute additions.”

Bitcoin Unicode Symbol was Years in the Making

People accept aggravating to get the bitcoin attribute added to Unicode for years. Back in 2011, Sander Van Galoven attempted to get the bitcoin attribute accustomed into the Unicode standard, but he hypothesis was rejected. More recently, in October 2015, Ken Shirriff submitted the archetypal “B” attribute with the two curve active through it. That is back the attribute was clearly accepted.

Kevin Helms autograph for bitcoin.com covered this back it was announced: “Bitcoiner Ken Shirriff submitted the archetypal B attribute with two vertical curve through it as the Unicode attribute for the bitcoin currency and was told that it had been accepted. One ages to the day afterwards his submission, Adobe agent and Unicode adumbrative Ken Lunde tweeted that Shirriff’s appliance had been accepted”

Even admitting the attribute was accepted, it was not in the 2024 cipher update. Some have been application the Thai baht ‘฿’ symbol, others the Ƀ symbol. Soon they should be able to use an official bitcoin attribute back accouterment descriptions of bitcoin prices online.

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