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		banana_maker on April 30, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (20... ... Why would an invisible meta-character for links be necessary if the output is paper? You can already specify a link by prepending 'http://', etc.

geocar on April 30, 2020 [–]

Sorry. I thought that would make it clear.

The request is for a code point to represent the visible external link character, not for an invisible control-code to decorate some structured data (which cannot "appear" on paper).

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