How to insert bitcoin symbol in affinity designer text area on iOS

[OlgaOggi]

Hi,

can you please help me to understand how to insert bitcoin (U+20BF)  and Russian ruble (U+20BD)  symbols to affinity designer text. It does not work neither on desktop nor on iPad. 

Thank you

 

[walt.farrell]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Do you have a font installed that has those characters in it? If so, just select that font, and then use the Glyph Browser to insert the characters. Or (with that font selected), type U+20BF and then Alt+U (Windows) or Ctrl+U (Mac) or use the Text > Toggle Unicode menu item. Similarly for the ruble character.

[OlgaOggi]

6 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Welcome to the Serif Affinity forums.

Do you have a font installed that has those characters in it? If so, just select that font, and then use the Glyph Browser to insert the characters. Or (with that font selected), type U+20BF and then Alt+U (Windows) or Ctrl+U (Mac) or use the Text > Toggle Unicode menu item. Similarly for the ruble character.

this is what I did a lot of times in different ways before questioning here. Did you tried to do it by yourself? It is important to know, because if it works on other's  Mac/iPad, it means that there is something wrong with my settings. 

[walt.farrell]

I'm not sure what fonts have support for those symbols. Do you have one to suggest?

[OlgaOggi]

29 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:

Tried it with Arial on windows and when my caret is in the textframe I double clicked the ruble and bitcoin glyph to be inserted and it did.

On Mac it does not work like this

[OlgaOggi]

4 minutes ago, N.P.M. said:

Maybe a mac user can help you out with this

do hope, that is why I am here

[OlgaOggi]

50 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm not sure what fonts have support for those symbols. Do you have one to suggest?

I can insert different stupid staff from any font (here is arial) using unicode but for bitcoin I am getting last shape. As for ruble it is even worse - there is the symbol on a Russian keyboard and I can type it here -  ₽, but not in Affinity designer

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, N.P.M. said:

double clicked the ruble and bitcoin glyph

Your search shows "rub", which displays a different symbol to me. The closest I get after choosing "Currency Symbols":
(so it appears to depend on the used version of Arial, respectively its existence in any font)

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[thomaso]

I can copy/paste it on mac from wikipedia:

₽

 … but pasted in APub in an Arial text frame it creates a rectangle. I don't currentcy 😉 know what font is used in my forum / browser window.

[iconoclast]

I tried it several times typing u+20bf (for Bitcoin sign) in Arial, but it didn't work the first times. Now after several tries, it suddenly works. Don't really know why. I changed in the meantime to my Verdana, that doesn't contain a Bitcoin symbol, but it worked with the Rubel sign. After that also the Arial showed the Bitcoin sign. Possibly a bug?

I'm on Windows 10, by the way.

Edit: Don't forget to type the Plus sign: "u+20bf" then "alt u" (without + and even without space).

[Old Bruce]

I think the fonts available on Mac OS do not have the two glyphs. On Windows OS the available fonts may well have the two glyphs.

[thomaso]

On mac there are a bunch of hidden fonts in System/Library/Fonts (file name starts with . dot, thus they don't appear in APub's font list, and in other font menus of other apps, too). – Some of them have rubel & bitcoin symbols, (strange glyph name;), for instance:

[OlgaOggi]

ohhh.... it becomes too complicated for me. How may I use these hidden fonts in Affinity?  Finally I am about to give up and report this to developers

[thomaso]

1 hour ago, OlgaOggi said:

Finally I am about to give up and report this to developers

Report what? That Apple uses system fonts, hidden on purpose? That it is different in Windows? That you don't find or purchase a font that contains the wanted glyphs?  – Possibly a free Google font has them.