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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by andrewzah on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:00AM (#23031561)
... Why would an invisible meta-character for links be necessary if the output is paper? You can already specify a link by prepending 'http://', etc.
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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by geocar on Thursday April 30, 2020 @11:11AM (#23031677)
Sorry. I thought that would make it clear.

The request is for a code point to represent the visible external link character, not for an invisible control-code to decorate some structured data (which cannot "appear" on paper).

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