Dash#Common dashes

The double en dash ( ⸺, English 2-em dash ) is in typography a horizontal line, the two foursquare, so as long as two em dashes - is (). It features in the English typography text part ( sequence of words or letters within a word ) that should not be represented directly (eg unreadable text parts or inappropriate language ).

Examples (quoted by ):

  • "The region gives its ⸺ to the language spoken there. "
  • " David H ⸺ h [ Hirsch ] voted aye. " (In German typography a series of three or more asterisks in this case is usually used. )

Representation on computer systems

The double en dash is 2 E3A ( 1.18341 million ) included since Unicode version 6.1 in Unicode Supplemental Punctuation block at position U. In common 8 - bit encodings such as Windows -1252 it is not included. Among the few fonts that him - at least in July 2012 - include include, for example Everson Mono and creeds. The characters can be entered in different systems by key combinations or codes:

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