They do, but I still use the correct dash in code comments. It’s easy to type with a compose key. I don’t know; I’ve just always done it. I think maybe because English is not my first language so I spent a while learning all the grammatical rules; it feels wrong to deliberately break them to indicate an informal tone, the way a lot of people do online.
when using a monotype font, shouldnt n and m dashes look the same even?
Let’s test. In order of hyphen, en, and em dashes:
Same overall width of character, but the whitespace between characters is different
huh, thanks. TIL
The graphical representation does not matter, they are still different character
grep doesn’t care about font.s
They do, but I still use the correct dash in code comments. It’s easy to type with a compose key. I don’t know; I’ve just always done it. I think maybe because English is not my first language so I spent a while learning all the grammatical rules; it feels wrong to deliberately break them to indicate an informal tone, the way a lot of people do online.