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Emoji are not at all the same. People type emoji as part of their text. People do not type "external link symbol" as part of their text.
by DagAgren 6y ago
Emoji are not at all the same. People type emoji as part of their text. People do not type "external link symbol" as part of their text.
- Aeolun 6y agoWhat if external link is the symbol I want to type? Would exit sign be appropriate, because I’m fairly certain there’s an emoji for that.
- nfoz 6y agoAs per https://www.unicode.org/pending/symbol-guidelines.html https://www.unicode.org/pending/symbol-guidelines.html > The 'symbol fallacy’ > The 'symbol fallacy’ is to confuse the fact that "symbols have semantic content" with "in text, it is customary to use the symbol directly for communication". These are two different concepts. An example is traffic signs and the communication of traffic engineers about traffic signs. In their (hand-)written communication the engineers are much more likely to use the words "stop sign" when referring to a stop sign, than to draw the image. Mathematicians are more likely to draw an integral sign and its limits and integrands than to write an equation in words. So where "stop sign" is in Unicode, it's a bit nuanced as per the manner.