|
|
Posted by Safalra (Stephen Morley) on 10/25/07 18:45
On Thu, 25 Oct 2007 20:33:35 +0200, Els wrote:
> Which one on my keyboard is the minus and which one is the proper
> hyphen?
>
> [...]
>
> I guess I'm using minus-hyphens then?
> hyphen next to the 0 key on my keyboard: -
> hyphen above the + on my numeric pad: -
> Are they real hyphens, or minuses?
The character you get by pressing the '-' key on your keyboard is a
hyphen-minus. It's a relic from ASCII, where it was used to represent a
range of characters - hyphens, dashes, and of course the minus sign. In
Unicode these all have different code points, and there's also the 'soft
hyphen' (which indicates where a work can be broken) to complicate matters.
In HTML the character entity references –, —, −, and
­ can be used to identify some of these, but numeric entity references
or a suitable character encoding are needed for others.
--
Safalra (Stephen Morley)
Web Typography:
http://www.safalra.com/web-design/typography/
Navigation:
[Reply to this message]
|