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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/11/2024 8:12 AM, Christoph Päper
via Unicode wrote:<br>
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<pre class="moz-quote-pre" wrap="">James Kass via Unicode <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="mailto:unicode@corp.unicode.org"><unicode@corp.unicode.org></a>:
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<a class="moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://emojipedia.org/link">https://emojipedia.org/link</a>
"Two links of a silver chain <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://emojipedia.org/chains/"><https://emojipedia.org/chains/></a>, positioned at a 45° angle. Used as an icon for a hyperlink <a class="moz-txt-link-rfc2396E" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink"><https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperlink></a> on computers and the internet. May also be used for metaphorical connections."
Seems related.
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Only remotely. These emoji ⛓️🔗 resemble text editor GUI icons for inserting a hyperlink, but this thread is about a symbol that is used before or after the link text in web pages to indicate that its target is “off site” – whatever that means exactly.
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<p><font face="Candara">There are several related questions that
should not be mixed up:</font></p>
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<li><font face="Candara">Are two shapes visually similar (whether
or not they express the same concept/semantics) ?</font></li>
<li><font face="Candara">Are two concepts related (even if not the
same, are they from the same field of application) ?</font></li>
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<p><font face="Candara">If the answer to the latter is YES, then
there is an argument to be made for parallel treatment in
encoding.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">The question on visual similarity is more
complicated, and conflates several distinct scenarios. The four
main cases are:<br>
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<li><font face="Candara">The shapes are accidentally similar, but
the concept are distinct</font></li>
<li><font face="Candara">The shapes are similar and valid glyph
alternatives for the same concept</font></li>
<li><font face="Candara">The shapes are distinct, but reflect
different notations choice to represent the same concept</font></li>
<li><font face="Candara">The shapes and concepts are unrelated.</font></li>
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<p><font face="Candara">We agree that the diagonal chain link emoji
is used in GUIs and other places to indicate a link or an action
to add / edit a link. We also agree that link and external link
are both related to URLs, but the concept of "external link"
cannot be conflated with the generic "link".</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">Given that "link" is now available as
encoded character, I don't feel the warm and fuzzies about a
principled stand to restrict the "external link" to an external
image. There's nothing inherent in the distinction that
absolutely must be reflected in a disparate decision on encoding
for these two.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">In other words, it strikes me as silly. If
it had been added when first proposed, we'd probably see
widespread adoption by now. That said, it's easy enough to
realize with a site-wide image.<br>
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<p><font face="Candara">A./<br>
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