https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=163587

--- Comment #5 from V Stuart Foote <[email protected]> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #4)
> In contrast or supplementary to the hyphen minus U+002D, the glyph U+2212 is
> the minus sign, see https://www.compart.com/en/unicode/U+2212.
> 
> I support this request, although it was rejected previously (in a wider
> context). 
> 
> (In reply to Eike Rathke from bug 125068 comment 8)
> > We could add U+2212 MINUS SIGN to the lexical tokenizer for formula
> > expressions and treat it like a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS operator minus, whereas
> > every output of the formula expression would display the U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS
> > again.
> 

No objection, but users will be annoyed that the internal HYPHEN-MINUS mapping
will always result as an entry of the U+002d in their sheets and table cells,
and not the typographic MINUS SIGN U+2212 they input.

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