Re: Arcane question: Anyone know where the "question dash" in Unicode

On May 30, 9:23=A0am, Character <C...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> nickr...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
> > On May 29, 4:21 pm, Armadillo <re...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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> >>>>>or maybe open em dash is en dash as two consecutive hyphens like it
> >>>>>is entered in Word.
>
> >>>I wonder what confusion is reflected and caused by such a statement.
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> >>>is best ignored.
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> >>But you did not.
>
> >>Jukka
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> > The "horizontal bar" also known as the "question dash" is different
> > from the underscore, no? If not, my question is answered, although it
> > begs others. If yes, then what is it and how do I get it on my Mac
> > keyboard? Not sure why this is so hard to grasp?
>
> Because there is no such thing as a "question dash". Your use of
> unknown terminology is what makes your intent hard to grasp. I tghink
> you simply mis-typed "question" instead of "quotation".
>
> For others' edification, an "open em dash" is an emdash with spaces
> (usually a full word space) on either side.
>
> The horizontal bar is, however, also known as a "quotation dash",
> commonly used to introduce quoted text in some non-English languages
> and by James Joyce.
>
> IF the font you're using happens to have this character, and not many
> do, In Unicode, the horizontal bar / quotation dash is U+2015 (decimal
> 8213). In HTML, it can be input only with the numeric form, &#x2015;
> or &#8213;
>
> How you enter Unicode directly on your Mac is a function of the
> application. In InDesign you'd use the glyph chart; in MSWord, I think
> you enter the four decimal digits followed immediately by an 'X' or
> something weird like that. =A0However, very few fonts include anything
> in that position. An em-dash (U+2014) is an imperfect, but useable,
> substitute. It's normally a bit bolder and longer.
>
> - Character

Thanksmuch. Apologies for being off topic and mis-stating quotation
dash as ...