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albrewer on April 13, 2022 | parent | context | favorite | on: U+237C ⍼ Right Angle with Downwards Zigzag Arrow

Hm, now that you mention it, I always thought of the external link symbol as being a box with an arrow coming from inside it and protruding out of the upper right hand corner, but I don't see that symbol anywhere in Unicode, and I'm not sure why I have that association.

There is the U+1F517 link symbol but I'm not sure that's communicating the same thing.

layer8 on April 13, 2022 | [–]

> I'm not sure why I have that association.

Wikipedia uses it.

teddyh on April 13, 2022 | [–]

I often see a globe symbol used to indicate external links; i.e. U+1F310, U+1F30D, U+1F30E, or U+1F30F.

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