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futurile

Am I the only person that didn't know there's a difference between a hyphen and an em-dash?

In some ways, why? The hyphen is-right-there on my keyboard — but no, I'm not allowed to use it, it has to be a dash — and in pairs only! What-the-fuck!

Is it a native English speaker thing? We never seem to know how the language actually works - also what the hell is an insert key?

Oops I did it again!

sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punct

sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punct

www.sussex.ac.ukThe Hyphen : The Hyphen and the Dash

@futurile Also be aware that an apostrophe ʼ (0x2bc) is different to a closing quote ’ (0x2019).

@khleedril @futurile the rabbit whole is deeper...

-: U+002D hyphen-minus
‐: U+00AD soft-hyphen
‐: U+2010 hyphen
‑: U+2011 non-breaking hyphen
‒: U+2012 figure dash
–: U+2013 en dash
—: U+2014 em dash
―: U+2015 horizontal bar
−: U+2212 minus
﹣: U+FE63 small hyphen-minus
-: U+FF0D full-width hyphen-minus

@sharlatan @khleedril <runs away in fear>

There's got to be a standards body somewhere that had a lot of fun!

@futurile sounds like js kung-fu (or kung--fu or kung - fu ^.^ wtf) with
=
==
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Not native English and just use - and _

@futurile, I only learned about the difference between them (and more) when learning LaTeX, and now I'm typing them with an input method that covers a subset of LaTeX.