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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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The Big Chungus of dashes. Could this be the character that has the widest rendering?!

Unlikely in non-english languages (I seem to remember some super wide Arabic "single character" ones...?)

Last I’d checked, “﷽”is the widest Unicode character.

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

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?)

I fear for the children who had to memorize this.

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

Just found another way to make my designer panic. We're launching Arabic soon too!

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

Works fine for me in Firefox.

For anyone wondering what this is actually used for:

> ...primarily used in scholarly and literary contexts to indicate a significant omission within a quoted passage, typically representing a full line, paragraph, or even multiple sentences of text

https://graphemica.com/%E2%B8%BB

We avoid censorship by ⸻ more often and talking to ⸻ about ⸻.

That’s a big dash

For you. But is it the biggest dash? And what is its intended purpose? I've never seen one that big before.

⸻ the three em dash

apparently used like ellipses … to indicate part of a quote was removed.

That's what she said

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