Thanks everyone in this thread for your support and helping get BTC into Unicode! Special thanks to runpaint for digging up a bunch of usage examples - that made a big difference.
Ken
This is really great news. Thanks to Ken and everyone for making this happen. Unicode now seems to appreciate that Bitcoin is no fly-by-night phenomenon. We've been around for years and we deserve a proper encoding for our symbol

Putting this here for the near furture when the forum's font support it:
^^fail

I don't seem to be able to copy the non-printing character into this text box
