From: William_J_G Overington (wjgo_10009@btinternet.com)
Date: Wed Mar 09 2011 - 03:37:07 CST
On Tuesday 8 March 2011, Doug Ewell <doug@ewellic.org> wrote:
> Which of the many hyphen and dash characters is preferred for separating the parts of a U.S. ZIP+4 code (such as 20500-0004)?
I found the following web page, from the United States Postal Service, that finds a ZIP code if the user enters an address.
http://zip4.usps.com/zip4/welcome.jsp
Searching by address, using in the required fields the partial address given as an example on the web page, namely as follows,
Main Street
Fairfax
VA
gives a set of results, for various addresses, the first of which is 22031-4032.
Copying onto the clipboard from the web page and pasting into SC UniPad and then highlighting the text in SC UniPad and then using
Edit
Convert
A \u...
All characters
and checking using the
http://www.unicode.org/charts/PDF/U0000.pdf
code chart shows that the character used for - on the web page is a U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS.
Using http://maps.google.com/ and Google's Street View facility provides a display of the street view at the address.
http://maps.google.com/streetview
It was Doug who first told me about the SC UniPad program in this mailing list some years ago. I have used it on many occasions and it is a very useful program. Some readers might like the following link.
http://www.unipad.org
William Overington
9 March 2011
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