Quote from: bg002h on October 07, 2012, 10:06:30 PM

It would be nice to have an educated, well thought out, and reasonable estimate of the amount of time it would take for a large fraction of users to have the BTC symbol work (and for someone to fill in all the assumptions with reasonable guesses)...

Well, sorry but the discussion in this thread is less about BTC than about the general UTF-8 code to be used when communicating bitcoin and when it comes to that, using some web-font is no solution as not every form of communication allows to paint pretty pictures (use webfonts).
Also I see it as no solution to add some post in the Meta-subforum on how to make BTC display well when we want newbies to come and feel at home without having to jump through loops prior to using the forum.

Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 07, 2012, 10:53:02 PM

Quote from: Hasimir on October 07, 2012, 10:50:08 PM

Quote from: Luke-Jr on October 07, 2012, 10:29:55 PM

Quote from: Hasimir on October 07, 2012, 09:51:10 PM

OS X 10.5.8

So, an OS that is now 5 years old and beyond end of life (no more security fixes). You shouldn't even be allowed online with that.

There are plenty of older systems around, if you really want to enforce your ideal OS standard then I'll believe it when you turn up on my doorstep. I'm easy to find.

At the very least, it's grounds for automatic ignoring complaints about standard things not working for you. The bugs were already fixed, you're just using a known-buggy version.

You may very well ignore his complaint concerning his system but you might have noticed that there are many others with fully updated machines that have severe issues that you can't ignore. For them you only have your religious reasons about pushing standards against any common sense.

Quote from: FLHippy on October 07, 2012, 11:06:26 PM

Suggesting that people who aren't upgraded to the latest version of something should be discounted is really elitist.

Believe it or not, I met elitist people on this very forum Wink

Quote from: Blind on October 08, 2012, 02:15:36 AM

Luke, did you get giant BTC tatooed on your butt that you defend it so religiously?

No, he has B|| on his forehead.

Furthermore, I consider that we should use Ƀ as the official Bitcoin symbol.