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   John McCue to Lawrence D'Oliveiro   
   Re: Unicode 16 Is Out   
   14 Sep 24 21:35:10   
   
   From: jmccue@neutron.jmcunx.com   
      
   Lawrence D'Oliveiro  wrote:   
   > On Fri, 13 Sep 2024 19:35:29 -0000 (UTC), John McCue wrote:   
   >   
      
   >   
   >> That is crazy, it is bad enough there are multiple symbols for   
   >> single-dashes and quotes.   
   >   
   > Which ones do you think are not distinctly different?   
      
   See:   
      
   https://jkorpela.fi/dashes.html   
      
   To me there is no need for multiple '-' characters.   
   One should be enough.  I read it, but I will always   
   say '-' is all that is needed.  Same goes for double   
   and single quotes :)   
      
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