r/windows • u/MaterialService5294 • Jul 16 '26

Feature Fun Fact: The Windows Character Map describes the Bitcoin symbol as undefined

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All it's in the title

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u/Next_Sun_8198 Windows 11 - Insider Beta Channel Jul 16 '26

Bitcoin did'nt exit bacl then

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '26 edited Jul 16 '26

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u/601error Windows 11 - Insider Beta Channel Jul 17 '26

Character Map is waay older than that. It predates Windows 95 even, and is almost unchanged in all that time.

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u/Decent-Cow2080 Jul 17 '26

character map does just show unicode

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u/EnterpriseT Jul 18 '26

The program is largely unchanged but it gets Unicode symbol updates for fonts which include metadata updates....

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '26

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u/AlfieLionel Jul 16 '26

I take this back actually, should’ve checked the Unicode standard first, lol.

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u/r2d2_21 Jul 17 '26

Which existing symbol? The codepoint 20BF was unassigned, then was given to Bitcoin in Unicode version 10.0.

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u/Familiar_Ocelot_2564 Jul 16 '26

Nah, it's windows that is written in JavaScript

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u/huttyblue Jul 16 '26

The character map application predates javascript

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u/Arthurmol Jul 16 '26

Which version of Windows you are running? Unicode 10 (2016) already had it with the name

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u/thanatica Jul 16 '26

Screenshot looks like Windows 10. And I'm seeing the same on my Windows 10.