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It'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?
by recursive 7y ago
It'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 7y 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 7y 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 7y 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 7y agoI personally would use it. I'm sure others would too.