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> The UTC rejected the proposals to add “external link sign”, most recently in L2/12-169. It is unclear that the entity in question is actually an element of pl
by cabalamat 6y ago
> The UTC rejected the proposals to add “external link sign”, most recently in L2/12-169. It is unclear that the entity in question is actually an element of plain text
Nor is Pile of Poo, and that's in Unicode.
If external Link was added to Unicode, I expect it would be more used than 1000s of characters that are in it.
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- stOneskull 6y agoReddit would probably do that in one day.
- DagAgren 6y agoWhy is it not? People use it in plain text millions of times a day.
- gnulinux 6y ago> Nor is Pile of Poo I really really don't understand this point. We have evidence that people use pile of poo in plaintext today in instant messaging all the time. Isn't this enough evidence that pile of poo belongs to plaintext? I'm not trying to be facetious; it's really puzzling to me. Since every single comment in this thread is about pile of poo, whereas it seems to me the worst possible example since it's such a widely used emoji.
- recursive 6y agoIt's only possible to use it in a text message because it's a unicode character. If external link was a character, would people use it? I don't know. Do you?
- gnulinux 6y agoMaybe, maybe not, we don't know. What I know is that even my mom and grandma use pile of poo on facebook. Will they use "external link" symbol? I would guess not, but maybe.
- recursive 6y ago> Will they use "external link" symbol? I would guess not. In that way, it would be no different from 99% of unicode characters then.
- gnulinux 6y agoExactly, my point is pile of poo is such a bad example since recently it's probably in 1%-th percentile of most used unicode symbols in plaintext. It's similar to arguing something like ∆ or é does not belong to unicode.
- cabalamat 6y agoI personally would use it. I'm sure others would too.