New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes

Re:New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes by brcmthrowaway on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @01:26PM (#47155557)

I fear for the children who had to memorize this.

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Re:New accounts on HN 10x more likely to use EM-dashes by mghackerlady on Wednesday February 25, 2026 @03:26PM (#47157355)

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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