Jallan wrote:
The en-dash is Unicode character U+0213 and the em-dash is Unicode character U+0214. The next character U+0215 (not found in most fonts) is named HORIZONTAL BAR is intended to be used as a quotation dash or any especially long dash.
On mine they show as U+2013 and U+2014. Thanks for the info on U+2015, the horizontal bar; I had wondered what that was.
Characters appear in Unicode order in the Special Characters dialogue box and the Unicode number of the currently selected character appears in the bottom right-hand corner of the box.
I saw that, but somehow I had failed to stumble on the "General Punctuation" section.
These dashes are followed by various typographical quotation mark symbols. Once you get used to finding the supplemental punctuation group in the Special Characters dialogue box, these specific dash characters cannot be missed.
Indeed, now that I know the secret password (so to speak), I'll have no trouble at all. This definitely goes into an FAQ, unless I discover there is such an FAQ already that I failed to discover earlier. Thanks for the other information on the complete Unicode character set. I knew about the Windows character map but had not taken the time to study it closely. I'm learning lots of useful stuff today! Regards, Jean --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
