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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by Aeolun on Thursday April 30, 2020 @06:44AM (#23029451)
Unicode is full of whole blocks of weird sets of lines and borders. As far as I’m concerned adding the symbol just to make it easier to style links makes total sense.
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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by kchr on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:00AM (#23030315)
Those "weird" characters has been used for ASCII and ANSI based text-mode user interfaces since the dawn of UI as a concept.
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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by buckminster on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:59AM (#23030858)
Being pedantic, those box drawing characters are neither ASCII nor ANSI. They are part of the original IBM PC character sets. Windows refers to them as the OEM character sets.
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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by ken on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:20AM (#23030476)
Unicode’s box drawing seems to go way beyond ANSI, though, and PETscii was only added very recently (IIRC).
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