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Re:Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear f... by astura on Friday December 08, 2017 @12:37PM (#15880360)
They have different lengths and purposes.

There's the hyphen (-) you are used to then there's the en dash (–) and the em dash (—).

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash

>An em dash (or an en dash) denotes a break in a sentence or to set off parenthetical statements.

>The en dash (but not the em dash) indicates spans or differentiation, where it may be considered to replace "and" or "to" (but not "to" in the phrase "from … to …")

>The em dash (but not the en dash) is also used to set off the sources of quotes

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Re:Rip Your Resume in Half and Other Things You Won't Hear f... by seorphates on Friday December 08, 2017 @01:48PM (#15880893)
They also have ramifications for the systems that consume them. If a system is ascii and using extended ascii then globalization presents some specific challenges around these groovy usages of the seemingly innocuous little flat line.
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