Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)
by egypturnash on Thursday April 30, 2020 @03:28PM
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Oh also I just wanna note that if we go by a previous convention, there is a perfectly good symbol for "this is an external link": back in the days when Geocities was relevant, it was pretty common to see external links marked by a little Earth gif after them, because it was a link to somewhere else on the World! Wide! Web.
If your browser feels like displaying Wingdings codepoints, something like this: http://egypt.urnash.com
Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)
by oehtXRwMkIs on Thursday April 30, 2020 @05:59PM
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I really like your website btw. Very beautiful.
Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)
by egypturnash on Friday May 01, 2020 @10:01AM
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Thanks!
Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)
by goto11 on Friday May 01, 2020 @05:41AM
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Scripts like Egyptian Hieroglyphs are exactly the purpose of Unicode. But a bunch of other symbols are mostly there because they come from some preexisting character set which Unicode had to include in order to be a viable replacement for legacy character sets.
Here's some random characters from the "Math Symbols" page of OSX's character viewer.
⨐⨔⊹⊰⨶⨹⩫⫸⧯⧼
Did you know that Unicode has an entire set of dominos in it?
🀱🀲🀳🀴🀵🀶🀷🀸🀹🀺🀻🀼🀽🀾🀿🁀🁁🁂🁃🁄🁅🁆🁇🁈🁉🁊🁋🁌🁍🁎🁏🁐🁑🁒🁓🁔🁕🁖🁗🁘🁙🁚🁛🁜🁝🁞🁟🁠🁡
Twice: once horizontally, once vertically.
🁣🁤🁥🁦🁧🁨🁩🁪🁫🁬🁭🁮🁰🁱🁲🁳🁴🁵🁶🁷🁸🁹🁺🁻🁼🁽🁾🁿🂀🂁🂂🂃🂄🂅🂆🂇🂈🂉🂊🂋🂌🂍🂎🂏🂐🂑🂒🂓
I know I sure use Ogham runes in my daily text communications on a constant basis.
ᚃᚄᚓᚈᚚᚙ᚛ᚘ
And Egyptian hieroglyphs.
𓁑𓀳𓂩𓃋𓇀𓈣𓇻𓇼𓇽𓀫
Oh hey and here's a "next page" and "previous page" symbol that "external link" could comfortably sit next to.
⎘⎗
And some miscellaneous arrows.
⤥↪︎↴↶↺⥀⟳⤩⤭⤱⥹⥰⥼⥺⥽⥬⇆⇼⇟⥣↬⇴