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

[Doug Ewell]

>> 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
>
> The first and last choice are arguably not the most conventional
> representations for these. They are, at best, fallbacks.

The irony of all this is that the OP’s argument was that “Unicode” (actually, whatever company or designer Unicode, Inc. hired to do web design) was “left to use the wrong symbol on their own website” because external-link isn’t available as a character...

... yet the symbol they chose to implement as a graphic is just a slightly repositioned variant of U+2197 NORTH EAST ARROW, which has been encoded in Unicode literally since version 1.0.

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Doug Ewell, CC, ALB | Lakewood, CO, US | ewellic.org