Bruce Byfield wrote:
I believe that an en-dash is 173 on the extended ASCII encoding table,
while an em dash is available under General Punctuation as Unicode 2014.
This information, of course, pre-supposes that you are using a font that
is at least partly Unicode compliant; many aren't.
Character decimal 173 (hex 00AD) is not the en-dash but the Latin-1
alphabet and Unicode character SOFT HYPHEN. This is the same character
that OpenOffice produces by simultaneous pressing of CTRL and the hyphen
key.
En-dash is Unicode 2013.
2010 HYPHEN. (A hyphen clearly distinguished from the ASCII HYPHEN-MINUS
which generally does double duty for hyphen and minus sign. In fact most
people, even when generating Unicode, use the ASCII HYPHEN-MINUS,
especially since this character is blank in most fonts.
2011 NON-BREAKING HYPHEN. (Should perform as does OpenOffice
CTRL-SHIFT-HYPHEN. Missing from most fonts.)
2012 FIGURE DASH. (Missing from most fonts.)
2013 EN DASH
2014 EM DASH
2015 HORIZONTAL BAR (= QUOTATION DASH).
Jallan
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