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Re:Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018) by mFixman on Thursday April 30, 2020 @01:15PM (#23033309)
Unicode has a lot of old "markup" symbols in typography, like the right pointy finger ([1], example in [2]). I see the external link symbol as a widely-used markup symbol of the current age, and it could reasonably be in Unicode.

[1] https://emojipedia.org/white-right-pointing-index/

[2] https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/t60AAOSwAPVZDOK3/s-l300.jpg

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