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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/12/2024 5:26 AM, Mark E. Shoulson
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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 4/12/24 03:31, Marius Spix via
Unicode wrote:<br>
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<div>For all these types of links existing characters can be
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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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<p>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."</p>
<p>~mark<br>
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<p><font face="Candara">"Can be used" is not the standard we should
apply. There may be legitimate alternate representations for the
same concept, but that doesn't get us out of recognizing the
case like this where there's a clear favorite in wide-spread use
as symbol.</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">I get it when Unicode is hesitant about
encoding just "any" symbol, such as traffic signs, because
signage and text are distinct use cases. But in this case, the
rationale for not encoding this is very thin - particularly
because a lot of parallel cases are clearly available as
characters..</font></p>
<p><font face="Candara">A./<br>
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