On Thu, 21 Feb 2002, Glenn Maynard wrote:
> > ...Having them grumble that
> > the stupid software keeps picking the wrong one would be an *IMPROVEMENT*.
>
> When they're visibly very similar, do you think most users are going to
> use them right, no matter how accessible they are?
Possibly not. But teaching people to make this distinction was exactly
what was originally asked for, at the start of this branch of the
discussion. The issue *wasn't* how a handful of cognoscenti could more
easily type the symbols in question.
I think there is some small hope that proper usage could *eventually*
become a well-known sign of careful composition, in the same way that
proper use of uppercase and lowercase letters is now. Note that I say
"some small hope", not "a near certainty". But I do not think there is
any chance at all if people see only hyphens in their output; that
encourages them to believe that there is no distinction to be made, that
hyphen is proper for all purposes.
Henry Spencer
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