Dash
Dashes can occur in different lengths. As far as this difference is recognized, they are represented as the following hexadecimal Unicode entities:
Sign | Entity | Description |
---|---|---|
- |
U+002D |
Hyphen/syllable hyphen/minus character (HYPHEN-MINUS ) |
‒ |
U+2012 |
Numeral dash (FIGURE DASH ) |
– |
U+2013 |
En dash (EN DASH ) |
— |
U+2014 |
Em dash (EM DASH ) |
If it is not possible to distinguish the length of the dash, it shall be recorded as an en dash.