David Foster

A lightweight macOS GUI for viewing git diff output. The ease of a visual diff viewer, the power of a command-line diffing tool.

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Why isn't the external link symbol in Unicode? (2018)

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I have frequently wanted to use the external link symbol ( ) in text that I’m writing, without having to resort to including an image. Normally the solution there would be to find the graphical symbol in Unicode and figure out how to type it.