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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by ken on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:19AM (#23030465)
Thus the inherent contradiction: Unicode is for text, it must include all existing character sets which it aims to unify, and previous character sets weren’t only used for text.

The obvious hack is to make a custom character set called “Rejected by Unicode”.

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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by ori_b on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:40AM (#23030663)
The goal was to eliminate "we can't switch to Unicode, it doesn't have ® symbols" objections.
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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by goto11 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @09:40AM (#23030660)
It would probably be easier just to design a png or svg icon for the UI widgets you need. Then you don't have to lobby a consortium and wait for them to accept your icon.
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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by rini17 on Thursday April 30, 2020 @12:10PM (#23032459)
To offload the design to the font foundry is even easier :)
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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by yissp on Thursday April 30, 2020 @10:48AM (#23031377)
Unicode Russell's paradox
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