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Another controversial absence is the "external link" symbol, which was rejected. https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06268-ext-link.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2
by GuB-42 6y ago
Another controversial absence is the "external link" symbol, which was rejected.
https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06268-ext-link.pdf https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2006/06268-ext-link.pdf
The reason seems to be that links are not a feature of a text document, they are part of a markup language, and therefore, it should be a feature of that language instead.
For HN, AFAIK, they deliberately strip emoji, but most Unicode work fine. ("私はひどい下痢です" should show up correctly)
- akvadrako 6y agoThis has been rejected several times. I even submitted an updated proposal last year with I think pretty good reasoning. Yet all they said was: > The context for usage is mark-up with links by default. Getting emojis accepted is much easier.
- marvindanig 6y agoSomeone needs to design an emoji that doubles as "external link" symbol!