Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Roedy Green Newsgroups: comp.lang.java.programmer Subject: Re: ascii char 26 Date: Wed, 14 Sep 2011 11:55:44 -0700 Organization: Canadian Mind Products Lines: 24 Message-ID: <22u177h2l9rn4mnq1comrvdfbcv4mihtup@4ax.com> References: <16f8836c-27b9-483b-a71f-61d7d6cfd188@i2g2000yqm.googlegroups.com> <178dad1e-e924-4563-9685-3261752e7c35@fi7g2000vbb.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: Roedy Green NNTP-Posting-Host: RCd/Ul4tyxGUBII8WGwa5g.user.speranza.aioe.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Complaints-To: abuse@aioe.org X-Notice: Filtered by postfilter v. 0.8.2 X-Newsreader: Forte Agent 6.00/32.1186 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.java.programmer:8031 On Sun, 11 Sep 2011 16:53:33 -0700 (PDT), Retahiv Oopsiscame wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said : >> hyphen U+2010 >> non-breaking hyphen U+2011 >> figure dash U+2012 >> en dash U+2013 >> minus sign U+2212 >> roman uncia sign U+10191 > >Wow, what a mess! See http://mindprod.com/jgloss/unicode.html It has a table showing all those dashes rendered. They don't all look the same. Further Unicode does not specify what the glyphs look like, just the code's logical function. A font designer is free to make all those different dashes visually distinct. -- Roedy Green Canadian Mind Products http://mindprod.com The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness. ~ John Kenneth Galbraith (born: 1908-10-15 died: 2006-04-29 at age: 97)