Usage could be like this

<fa:.....TextBlock Text=":btc: is a cryptocurrency. :EURO: is a fiat money" />

This would allow binding a text which includes icon-tags. Nice.

I would suggest to get close to the standard c# string interpolation syntax for icon-tags like this

<fa:.....TextBlock Text="{fa:btc}: is a cryptocurrency. {fa-euro}: is a fiat money" />

I'm not sure yet if subclassing a text block would be a good fit. Maybe an attached behavior would suit better.

Here is an example where we used an attached behavior to format highlighted search results from elasticsearch back into a textblock

making a simple string parser to insert the icon #2

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