Re: [OT] em dash absent from Latin-1/Latin-9 and keyboards, why ?

[Mark Davis]

 Historical accident, I believe. Those character sets tended to be derived from typewriters, not from the characters necessary for real publication. Mark __________________________________ http://www.macchiato.com ►  “Eppur si muove” ◄   ----- Original Message ----- From: Patrick Andries To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 24, 2002 17:21 Subject: [OT] em dash absent from Latin-1/Latin-9 and keyboards, why ? I have an off-topic question -- well, maybe not so much since questions have been asked about dashes -- related to the absence of the em dash/en dash from the Latin-1/Latin-9 character sets.   Why are those dashes (actually either one of the two is useful in French) absent from keyboards and Latin-1/Latin-9 character sets ?   These large dashes seem much more useful in most European languages than the ¦ character, for instance (which I have never seen in everyday texts).   P. Andries