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<div>anchor links: U+00B6 ¶ PILCROW SIGN</div>
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<div>local links: U+1F517 🔗 LINK SYMBOL</div>
<div>broken links (also known as red-links): U+26D3 U+200D U+1F4A5 CHAINS + ZERO WIDTH JOINER + COLLISION SYMBOL</div>
<div>external links: U+2192 → RIGHTWARDS ARROW</div>
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<div style="margin:0 0 10px 0;"><b>Gesendet:</b> Donnerstag, 11. April 2024 um 21:05 Uhr<br/>
<b>Von:</b> "Asmus Freytag via Unicode" <unicode@corp.unicode.org><br/>
<b>An:</b> "Tom Moore" <tom.moore@microsoft.com>, "Sławomir Osipiuk" <sosipiuk@gmail.com>, "Asmus Freytag via Unicode" <unicode@corp.unicode.org><br/>
<b>Betreff:</b> Re: [EXTERNAL] Re: External Link Symbol</div>
<div name="quoted-content">On 4/11/2024 11:47 AM, Tom Moore wrote:<br/>
> Then multiply that by 2, for links that navigate current tab vs. request to open a new tab.<br/>
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Is there a link to samples for all of these as used in practice, or is<br/>
this just a theoretical distinction?<br/>
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A./<br/>
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> -----Original Message-----<br/>
> From: Unicode <unicode-bounces@corp.unicode.org> On Behalf Of Slawomir Osipiuk via Unicode<br/>
> Sent: Thursday, April 11, 2024 9:28 AM<br/>
> To: asmusf <asmusf@ix.netcom.com>; Asmus Freytag via Unicode <unicode@corp.unicode.org><br/>
> Subject: [EXTERNAL] Re: External Link Symbol<br/>
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> There are actually three kinds of links that are distinguishable from each<br/>
> other:<br/>
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> - A link to a different location in the current document (anchor link/jump<br/>
> link)<br/>
> - A link to a resource on the same network/domain as the current document (local link/relative link)<br/>
> - A link to a resource on a different network (external link)<br/>
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> All those can appear as symbols, used contrastively, within a run of text.<br/>
> I'm very surprised these haven't already been encoded and that there is any controversy. The consortium doesn't care much for precendent, but come on, we have "play"and "eject" symbols encoded!<br/>
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