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You may be amused to learn about these, then: U+2012 FIGURE DASH, U+2013 EN DASH and U+2212 MINUS SIGN all look exactly the same, as far as I can tell. But the
by hanche 3y ago
You may be amused to learn about these, then:
U+2012 FIGURE DASH, U+2013 EN DASH and U+2212 MINUS SIGN all look exactly the same, as far as I can tell. But they have different semantics.
- layer8 3y agoThey don’t necessarily look the same. The distinction is typographic, and only indirectly semantic. Figure dash is defined to have the same width as a digit (for use in tabular output). Minus sign is defined to have the same width and vertical position as the plus sign. They may all three differ for typographic reasons.
- hanche 3y agoAh, good point. But typography is supposed to support the semantics, so at least I was not totally wrong.
- ahazred8ta 3y agoIn Hawaiʻi, there's a constant struggle between the proper ʻokina, left single quote, and apostrophe.