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En dash is indistinguishable from a minus #9

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dyavc opened this issue Feb 2, 2024 · 1 comment
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En dash is indistinguishable from a minus #9

dyavc opened this issue Feb 2, 2024 · 1 comment

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@dyavc
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dyavc commented Feb 2, 2024

This is based on a user's report about APL385 Unicode, so I thought I'd try APL386

For you to consider please,
⎕ucs 8211 45 ⍝ en dash then minus sign
⎕ucs 8212 ⍝ em dash

The user also says that em dash is not long enough.

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abrudz commented Feb 2, 2024

I agree that ndash could be slightly longer but note that this is a monospace font. Making mdash any longer would make it into a contiguous line. Here are 4 adjacent characters of each type:
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