Scripsit nickravo@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> On May 30, 9:23 am, Character <C...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
>> 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. However, 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 ...
So you are saying, with this extended one-liner preceded by a fullquote,
the common cluelessness indicator, that quotation dash, also (and more
officially) known as HORIZONTAL BAR, U+2015, is really the character you
mean?
_Then_ we might have a font question, and what "Character" wrotes about
it is wrong, though understandably wrong. The fileformat.info site,
which contains a lot of answers to questions like "which fonts contain
the character ...?", has got this wrong, for some reason. It claims that
the character only exists in some Lucida Sans fonts, but in reality,
most of the commonly used fonts have it.
(I have re****ted this issue in the discussion group for the site, and
someone else had previously re****ted a similar one, so I guess this is
some confusion which will be fixed.)
A quick check, displaying the character in some common fonts:
http://www.cs.tut.fi/cgi-bin/run/~jkorpela/char.cgi?code=2015
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Jukka K. Korpela ("Yucca")
http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/
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