Font Forum

In the archives of the Unicode mailing list is the following.

http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0040.html

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I decided to try to draw some glyphs for the two symbols and have included them in a small font which is now available on the web. I also included a glyph for a document with no external link, on a sort of informal "for completeness" basis. The two symbols are not in regular Unicode at this time so I have mapped them and the extra glyph, (which could possibly be in regular Unicode as such yet maybe not available to match the other two glyphs as to size of square and thickness of line in many fonts, if indeed any), both to ordinary letter positions h e and q so that they are conveniently displayed in a fontviewer which shows "The quick brown fox" for a font and also to three Private Use Area code points, namely U+E60A, U+E60B and U+E60C.

http://www.users.globalnet.co.uk/~ngo/EXTLINKS.TTF

Hopefully this font may be of interest for producing graphics using the Microsoft Paint program, point sizes 12, 18, 24, 36, 48, 72 look fine.

William Overington

The following web page links to a pdf of a draft of a document for proposing to include the external link symbol into Unicode.

http://www.unicode.org/mail-arch/unicod ... /0101.html

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The pdf is interesting and shows various glyph variants for the symbol which are in use.

William