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Most people want to avoid looking like AI, ut what if you want to blend in with the robot uprising. I present ⸻ the U+2E3B dash.
by maurycyz 7mo ago
Most people want to avoid looking like AI, ut what if you want to blend in with the robot uprising.
I present ⸻ the U+2E3B dash.
- isoprophlex 7mo agoThe Big Chungus of dashes. Could this be the character that has the widest rendering?!
- have_faith 7mo agoUnlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?)
- MarioMan 7mo agoLast I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character.
- OJFord 7mo agoIt's rendering visibly narrower than the big dash up thread for me, on FF on Android. (Maybe HN's stripping one or more of the combining chars though, so it's not actually showing what you meant in full?)
- yorwba 7mo agoIt depends on the font, of course. Some renditions look like regular Arabic text, others are much narrower: https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab https://fonts.google.com/?preview.text=%EF%B7%BD&script=Arab
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- brcmthrowaway 7mo agoI fear for the children who had to memorize this.
- mghackerlady 7mo agoIt isn't a special letter or symbol in arabic, it's just a regular sentence that was added to unicode since it both holds symbolic meaning in islam and is used often enough to be useful. Some fonts render it like any other arabic, making it look like one big sentence as a single character, but others render it as calligraphy
- elinear 7mo agoJust found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!
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- MagicMoonlight 7mo agoThat’s a big dash
- mardifoufs 7mo agoFor you. But is it the biggest dash? And what is its intended purpose? I've never seen one that big before.
- bombcar 7mo ago⸻ the three em dash apparently used like ellipses … to indicate part of a quote was removed.
- shmeeed 7mo agoThat's what she said
- 5o1ecist 7mo ago[flagged]
- NoiseBert69 7mo agoWe avoid censorship by ⸻ more often and talking to ⸻ about ⸻.
- Aachen 7mo agoDoes this comment break HN for anyone else? I can press "next" on any other post, but not this one. And in the next post, pressing "prev" does not scroll to this one. It does nothing. Prev works fine when pressed on this (or any other) post
- NicuCalcea 7mo agoWorks fine for me in Firefox.
- moebrowne 7mo agoFor anyone wondering what this is actually used for: > ...primarily used in scholarly and literary contexts to indicate a significant omission within a quoted passage, typically representing a full line, paragraph, or even multiple sentences of text https://graphemica.com/%E2%B8%BB https://graphemica.com/%E2%B8%BB