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1. LeoPan+O1[view] [source] 2025-08-30 04:04:54
>>tkgall+(OP)
Feature request: Sort by em-dashes per comment.

Feature request 2: Em-dash regular-dash ratio.

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2. dragon+4c[view] [source] 2025-08-30 06:53:17
>>LeoPan+O1
> Feature request 2: Em-dash regular-dash ratio.

What's a “regular dash”?

Hyphen-minus (which isn't even a dash at all)? En-dash? Figure dash?

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3. LeoPan+rd[view] [source] 2025-08-30 07:11:00
>>dragon+4c
Hyphen minus, yes. The one on your keyboard.
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4. layer8+dF[view] [source] 2025-08-30 13:02:35
>>LeoPan+rd
Keys on the keyboard aren’t characters.
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5. LeoPan+nf1[view] [source] 2025-08-30 17:40:10
>>layer8+dF
Pointless bickering. The minus sign on your keyboard is what 99% of people will hit when they want a dash.
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6. layer8+ts1[view] [source] 2025-08-30 19:31:23
>>LeoPan+nf1
My point is there’s a whole software stack that determines what character is actually output when you hit that key, based on locale and IME, and also depending on the application. You meant to indicate a specific character, but specifying a key is a bad way to do that. Keyboard controllers don’t work in terms of characters. I could easily configure my OS to output U+2010 HYPHEN for that key by default, for example, and might actually do that for a typesetting application.
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