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Revision as of 03:09, 19 November 2010
N.B. Usage of preferred characters is optional and sometimes unwarranted.
Preferred | Usage | Deprecates | |
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‐ | Hyphen | Joining words, e.g. co‐operate. | - (hyphen-minus) |
‒ | Figure Dash | used as a dash within numbers, e.g. 555‒1212 | |
– | En Dash | Separate range of numbers (e.g. 1989‒90) | |
− | Minus sign | Indicate subtraction | |
— | Em Dash | Separate thoughts—like this | -- (hyphen-minus, ×2) |
― | Horizontal bar Quotation dash |
Introduce quoted text in some cases. | |
‘ | Left single quotation mark | Indicate start of quoted text. | ' (apostrophe-quote) |
’ | Right single quotation mark Apostrophe |
Indicate end of quoted text, or omitted characters. | |
′ | Prime | Minutes; feet. | |
“ | Left double quotation mark | Indicate start of quoted text | " (quotation mark) |
” | Right double quotation mark | Indicate end of quoted text | |
″ | Double prime | Seconds; inches | |
… | Horizontal ellipsis | Indicate intentional omission in original text, or a pause in speech or thought. | ... (Period/full stop ×3) |
× | Multiplication | Indicate multiplication operation. | x (the letter 'x') when used to indicate multiplication |