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 Had an ebook use a really long, thin dash and was wondering what it was.
Copied and pasted it into a unicode character lookup, and it turns out they were using two U+2500 box drawing characters for their dashes ──
──────────── I guess that way you can make your dashes as long as you want.