On 4/18/11 2:19 PM, Ben Finney wrote:
Matt Lundin<[email protected]> writes:
To ensure consistency of export, I have gotten in the habit of using
three hyphens for the emdash in ASCII---even in mail.
I just write the characters – choosing the right one for my purpose – in
Unicode. It's already the third millennium of our calendar — we can
expect Unicode support, and harangue those who haven't joined us in the
international village yet.
Indeed so. But when using a fixed-width font, "--" and "---" are a lot
easier to distinguish from "-" than are "–" and "—".
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