Nobody needs to hear this, but…
The "star" key on a telephone is actually represented by a sextile ⚹ according to ITU recommendation E.161
Many smartphone dialers get this wrong and use an asterisk *, full-width asterisk ＊, or asterisk operator ∗
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Replying to @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt
@LilahTovMoon this is as bad as all the dashes (- – —)
Replying to @Dangerous_beans@aus.social
@Dangerous_beans There are so many great dashes!
- hyphen minus
﹣ small hyphen minus
－ full width hyphen minus
− minus sign
soft hyphen (yeah, there's an invisible hyphen)
‐ hyphen
‑ non-breaking hyphen
‒ figure dash
– en dash
— em dash
﹘ small em dash
― horizontal bar or quotation dash
⁓ swung dash (which is not a tilde)
⸚ hyphen with diaeresis
⸺ two em dash
⸻ three em dash
⹀ double hyphen (not an equal sign)
゠ katakana double hyphen
〰 wavy dash
︱ vertical em dash
The possibilities are endless! Well, finite, but way larger than you'd think.
Replying to @LilahTovMoon@tech.lgbt
@LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans
I am in awe of your compilation skills.
This also led me to track down what font the Mastodon SW on this site is using which actually *displays* all of these. It must be very up to date on Unicode symbols.
WRONG: Roboto Regular, it turns out.
CORRECTION: It appears it's actually Microsoft YaHei that has all of these; Roboto is missing a number of the cool ones like the 2 em- and 3 em-dashes.