Aw: Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: External Link Symbol

[Mark E. Shoulson]

On 4/12/24 03:31, Marius Spix via Unicode wrote:
> For all these types of links existing characters can be used:
> anchor links: U+00B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN
> local links: U+1F517 🔗 LINK SYMBOL
> broken links (also known as red-links): U+26D3 U+200D U+1F4A5 CHAINS 
> + ‍ZERO WIDTH JOINER + COLLISION SYMBOL
> external links: U+2192 → RIGHTWARDS ARROW

Good suggestions.  There's "can be used", though, and there's "are being 
used."  I've certainly seen the PILCROW SIGN used for anchor links, 
though generally only at the "anchor" end, not at the link end.  Many 
web pages have the pilcrow sign appearing on hover-over on headers which 
act as anchors.  And not everyplace uses the Wikipedia arrow-and-box 
symbol for external links, I think I've seen things like RIGHTWARDS 
ARROW or other arrows used.  But lots of places use the Wikipedia-style 
arrow-and-box. Saying, "well, you could use something else" is sort of 
like saying "we don't need to encode Devanagari, you can just 
transliterate into Latin, it says the same thing."

~mark
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