Re: U+2015 HORIZONTAL DASH, 2-em and 3-em dashes in the Chicago Manual of Style

From: Leo Broukhis (leob@mailcom.com)
Date: Tue Jan 26 2010 - 16:50:16 CST

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    On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Michael Everson <everson@evertype.com> wrote:
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    > I have no objection to adding a two-em dash and a three-em dash to the UCS.

    Hmm... Slightly paraphrasing Unicode FAQ:

    Ligaturing is a behavior encoded in fonts: if a modern font is asked
    to display an {em-dash} followed by {another em-dash}, and the font
    has {a two-em dash} ligature in it, it can display the ligature. Some
    fonts have no ligatures, some (especially for non-Latin scripts) have
    hundreds. It does not make sense to assign Unicode code points to all
    these font-specific possibilities.

    Leo

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