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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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