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Simon Tatham

A typographical sin that's been annoying me recently:

has a specific code point U+2212 for MINUS SIGN, for use when you mean the mathematical notion of subtraction or negation. Any other uses of a horizontal line have separate code points: hyphens, various lengths of dash, box-drawing characters. You can _tell_ when someone means mathematical minus.

Why would a font deliberately make U+2212 a _different width_ from PLUS SIGN?!

Feb 05, 2025, 10:39 AM·Public·Mastodonochrome
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