External Link Symbol

[James Kass]

On 2024-04-10 3:45 PM, Peter Constable via Unicode wrote:
>
> Who defines “right” in this case?
>
> I agree the site could use improvement on this point, but the fix I 
> would propose is to use an image asset and not a character.
>

This can be done in CSS:
https://christianoliff.com/blog/styling-external-links-with-an-icon-in-css/

Since Unicode doesn't regard the symbol as text, perhaps any future 
proposal should treat it as an emoji.  As Marius Spix pointed out, 
related link symbols already exist in Unicode.