01110111 01101000 01100001 01110100 00100111 01110011 00100000 01110100 01101000 01100101 00100000 01100100 01100101 01100001 01101100 00111111

edit - honestly not a troll. is it the specific formatting of “em” dashes? i know for sure we use them all the time. or at least i do. but they’re just dashes to me, so…

  • Yardy Sardley@lemmy.ca
    11·
    5 months ago

    Most people aren’t taking the time to type in ctrl+shift+u+2+0+1+4 when a regular minus-dash would get the point across with a single keystroke. But there is enough of a distinction that some people (like you and I) will use the proper punctuation when there is an opportunity to do so.

    What I find far more suspicious is the unicode hyphen, because no human would be able to tell the difference, and would therefore always choose to input a minus.

    • Ephera@lemmy.mlEnglish
      6·
      5 months ago

      Not sure, if that’s a Linux thing, but I can press Alt Gr and - to get an en-dash, as well Alt Gr and Shift and - to get an em-dash.

    • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
      3·
      5 months ago

      Most people aren’t taking the time to type in ctrl+shift+u+2+0+1+4 when a regular minus-dash would get the point across with a single keystroke.

      emacs:

      • C-x 8 _ m

      • C-x 8 RET e m SPC d TAB RET

      emacs using input methods

      • C-\ T e X RET to enter TeX input method. - - - to enter an em dash when in that input method.

      • C-\ s g m l RET to enter sgml input method. & m d a s h ; to enter an em dash when in that input method.

      • C-\ r f c 1 3 4 5 RET to enter rfc1345 input method. & - M to enter an em dash when in that input method.

      For X11 or Wayland, if you have assigned a key to be Compose: Compose and then three hyphens to get an em dash.

        • tal@lemmy.todayEnglish
          2·
          5 months ago

          The stuff there is a heck of a lot easier to input than memorizing numeric Unicode codepoints and using GTK’s control-shift-U thing that the parent post was suggesting.

          Emacs also can do that (C-\ u c s RET to enter ucs input method, and u 2 0 1 4 with that input method enabled), but it’s almost certainly not how you want to input oddball characters unless you’ve no other choice.

    • athairmor@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      You don’t have type all of that. E.g. on iOS you type two dashes and it is automatically converted to an emdash.