Re: unicode

[Thomas Hood <jdthood@yahoo.co.uk>]

On Fri, 2003-07-25 at 11:20, Colin Watson wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2003 at 10:04:26AM +0100, David Pashley wrote:
> > Probably the biggest unicode problem I have noticed is with man and/or
> > less where it can't display dashes correctly. At least it doesn't seem
> > to work out of the box.
> 
> In groff \- is a dash, - is a hyphen. People need to use the right one.
> If you have other problems let me know, since I'm not aware of any in
> unstable right now.

In unicode, there are at least these:

ASCII hyphen        - (0x2D)
hyphen              ‐ (0x2010)
non-breaking hyphen   (0x2011)
subtraction sign    − (0x2212)
en dash             – (0x2013)
em dash             — (0x2014)
horizontal bar      ― (0x2015)

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Thomas