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Obviously enough text-mode browsers would be likely to benefit.
It is simply factuly incorrect to say that a commonly used sysmbol would not benifit from being included in fonts. How can a committee working in this field posibly fail to understand that?
They clap become clap petty clap tyrants.
I suspect HN will eat the character: ⬀⃞ although they sometimes pass through if there's enough other text in the comment.
The reason for rejection, for better or worse, is that this is a functional element, like a button, rather than part of running text.
Like the play/pause symbols then, which are already in there? And since when was a smiling poop an ‘element of plain text’
Neither applies to the "external link" symbol.
It is simply factuly incorrect to say that a commonly used sysmbol would not benifit from being included in fonts. How can a committee working in this field posibly fail to understand that?
Similar to case law in America, the committee might be avoiding potential abuse in future requests that point back to the rules being seemingly modified for one specific symbol.
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Like the play/pause symbols then, which are already in there? And since when was a smiling poop an ‘element of plain text’
not that I agree with the final decision, but I can imagine "Play"/"Pause" to show up in a device manual and Smiling Poop as part of a chat message. Neither applies to the "external link" symbol.
The closest I can think of is U+2b00 (north east white arrow) followed by U+20de (combining enclosing square). I suspect HN will eat the character: ⬀⃞ although they sometimes pass through if there's enough other text in the comment.
God, they spend so much time on emoji which is much the same. They are becoming a bit of a joke!
You don't expect to be able to click emoji, and they don't lose their meaning when printed out on paper.
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not that I agree with the final decision, but I can imagine "Play"/"Pause" to show up in a device manual and Smiling Poop as part of a chat message. Neither applies to the "external link" symbol.
Why couldn’t the external link icon appear in technical documentation as it so often does?
What's the code point for uppercase superscript Z? j/k there isnt one. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unicode_subscripts_and_supersc... No doubt those emoji's are more important and historically common than superscript uppercase C F Q S X Y and Z. https://github.com/jakeogh/unicodehaz