<story><title>Ƀ — Universal Bitcoin Logo Alternative</title><url>http://www.ecogex.com/bitcoin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jws</author><text>That is Unicode U+0243 &quot;Latin Capital Letter B with stroke&quot;. It is in the &lt;i&gt;Latin Extended-B&lt;/i&gt; block, which contains among other mysteries, about half of the latin letters with strokes.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d love to see a &quot;Unicode: What where they thinking?&quot; page that documents why they thought a particular codepoint should be in the standard. I mean, capital A, B, and C with a stroke, but not capital D? A and C have their stroke diagonal, B has its horizontal, U also gets a horizontal stroke, but it is named a &quot;bar&quot;. All very mysterious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jrochkind1</author><text>The OP suggests that U+0243 B with stroke is a &quot;capitalized alternate symbol for the voiced bilabial fricative in Americanist phonetic notation&quot;&lt;p&gt;I would suspect that the other stroke capitals that are present were used in specific actual alphabets (and probably represented in some existing pre-unicode font or code block), whether &apos;Americanist phonetic alphabet&apos;, or other -- and the stroke capitals that are not present, were not.&lt;p&gt;In general, unicode codepoints are justified by actually existing use.&lt;p&gt;(There is an interesting metaphysical problem that arises as our lives become increasingly digitized -- things that are not present in unicode _won&apos;t_ be used, because they won&apos;t be _able_ to be used online... so how will new things be added justified by use, once all the existing pre-digital glyphs have been added? I dunno.)</text></comment>
<story><title>Ƀ — Universal Bitcoin Logo Alternative</title><url>http://www.ecogex.com/bitcoin</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jws</author><text>That is Unicode U+0243 &quot;Latin Capital Letter B with stroke&quot;. It is in the &lt;i&gt;Latin Extended-B&lt;/i&gt; block, which contains among other mysteries, about half of the latin letters with strokes.&lt;p&gt;I&apos;d love to see a &quot;Unicode: What where they thinking?&quot; page that documents why they thought a particular codepoint should be in the standard. I mean, capital A, B, and C with a stroke, but not capital D? A and C have their stroke diagonal, B has its horizontal, U also gets a horizontal stroke, but it is named a &quot;bar&quot;. All very mysterious.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dudus</author><text>I had my &quot;What are they thinking?&quot; moment when I found out about snowman.&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/2603/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;After that the only one to shock me was &quot;Pile of poo&quot;&lt;p&gt;&lt;a href=&quot;http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1f4a9/index.htm&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>