<p>While the symbol was part of the Unicode 10.0 release, many fonts still don't have the symbol as part of their character set. You need to install a font that includes the symbol to make it show up.</p>
<p>One such font is <a href="http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><code>GNU Unifont Glyphs</code></a>. After installing the package <code>unifont</code>, the symbol shows up in the console and browser for me.</p>
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<p>Corollary, many Linux distributions support inputting unicode symbols by typing <code>CTRL+SHIFT+U</code>, followed by the symbol's designation <code>20bf</code> offset by a space or <code>ENTER</code>.</p>

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You will not get this issue with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, where unifont is included by default.

If you run into some display weirdness with the ùnifont` package, try `apt-get install xfonts-unifont ttf-unifont` these packages are supposed to display font in TrueType and PCF (bitmap) method.
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<p>The Bitcoin symbol was added to the Unicode standard as ₿ (U+20BF). This shows up as a placeholder (empty box) in texts for me. What do you have to do so it will be shown in text, e.g. in the browser?</p>

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How old is your Linux installation?  Mine (Debian buster) shows the character properly.  I can open gedit, type Ctrl-Shift-U 20bf space, and see the proper character.
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This machine is running Ubuntu 18.04
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How do you make the unicode Bitcoin symbol show correctly in text on Linux?
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# How do you make the unicode Bitcoin symbol show correctly in text on Linux?

(Asked by: username_0 on 2020-08-02)

The Bitcoin symbol was added to the Unicode standard as ₿ (U+20BF). This shows up as a placeholder (empty box) in texts for me. What do you have to do so it will be shown in text, e.g. in the browser?

**Tags:** linux, bitcoin-symbol

> **Comments:**
> **username_1**: How old is your Linux installation?  Mine (Debian buster) shows the character properly.  I can open gedit, type Ctrl-Shift-U 20bf space, and see the proper character.  
> **username_0**: This machine is running Ubuntu 18.04  

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## 1 answers

### Answer by username_0 on 2020-08-02. Score: 19 | Accepted answer

While the symbol was part of the Unicode 10.0 release, many fonts still don't have the symbol as part of their character set. You need to install a font that includes the symbol to make it show up.

One such font is [`GNU Unifont Glyphs`](http://unifoundry.com/unifont/index.html). After installing the package `unifont`, the symbol shows up in the console and browser for me.

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Corollary, many Linux distributions support inputting unicode symbols by typing `CTRL+SHIFT+U`, followed by the symbol's designation `20bf` offset by a space or `ENTER`.

> **Comments:**
> **username_2**: You will not get this issue with Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, where unifont is included by default.  If you run into some display weirdness with the ùnifont` package, try `apt-get install xfonts-unifont ttf-unifont` these packages are supposed to display font in TrueType and PCF (bitmap) method.  

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