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A few new character entities

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A few new character entities

Postby VGR » Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:46 pm

There are a couple new entities I would like to see:

&hy; = U+2010 hyphen
&nbhy; = U+2011 non-breaking hyphen

I don't know if I'm the only one who does this, but I use hyphens all over my documents, and repeated occurrences of "&hy;" will be easier to read (I'm pretty sure) than "‐".

The two-letter form is, of course, derived from "­".

I don't use non-breaking hyphens nearly as often. "&nbhy;" comes to mind only for the sake of having symmetry with " ".
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Postby campax » Mon Nov 24, 2008 3:53 pm

what about directly writing those hypens (and what ever you need) in the file (instead of the entity) and save that file as utf-8?

it will be even more readable
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