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   futurile (futurile@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 05:57:44 JST 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!

   https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/hyphenanddash/hyphen

   https://www.sussex.ac.uk/informatics/punctuation/hyphenanddash/dash

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     Khleedril (khleedril@cyberplace.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 05:57:44 JST Khleedril

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

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     Sharlatan (sharlatan@mastodon.social)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:06:51 JST Sharlatan

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     • Khleedril

     @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

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     MortSinyx (cnx@awkward.place)'s status on Monday, 27-Jan-2025 21:08:27 JST MortSinyx

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     @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.