| ▲ | maurycyz 6 hours 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. |
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| ▲ | Aachen 3 hours ago | parent | next [-] |
| Does 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 |
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| ▲ | isoprophlex 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| The Big Chungus of dashes. Could this be the character that has the widest rendering?! |
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| ▲ | have_faith 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?) | | |
| ▲ | MarioMan 5 hours ago | parent [-] | | Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character. | | |
| ▲ | yorwba 4 hours ago | parent | next [-] | | It 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 | |
| ▲ | OJFord 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | It'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?) | |
| ▲ | 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | [deleted] | |
| ▲ | brcmthrowaway 3 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] | | I fear for the children who had to memorize this. | | |
| ▲ | mghackerlady an hour ago | parent [-] | | It 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 |
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| ▲ | elinear 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | | Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too! |
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| ▲ | NoiseBert69 4 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| We avoid censorship by ⸻ more often and talking to ⸻ about ⸻. |
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| ▲ | 5o1ecist 5 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
| > what if you want to blend in with the robot uprising. There is nothing to fear, MY HUMAN FRIEND! |
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| ▲ | 6 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-] |
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| ▲ | MagicMoonlight 5 hours ago | parent | prev [-] |
| That’s a big dash |
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| ▲ | mardifoufs 4 hours ago | parent [-] | | For you. But is it the biggest dash? And what is its intended purpose? I've never seen one that big before. | | |
| ▲ | bombcar 3 hours ago | parent [-] | | ⸻ the three em dash apparently used like ellipses … to indicate part of a quote was removed. |
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