Harlan Messinger <hmessinger.removethis@comcast.net> writes:

> [...] it isn't any more illogical than using the Unicode
> exclamation point for factorials, instead of setting off a separate
> code point for the factorial mark so that some day a wacko type
> designer can design a font in which the factorial symbol looks
> different from the exclamation point.



Still, there’s a lot left to be desired in digital typography. The next
best practical enemy of good taste I can think of is the hyphen; U+002D
is as bad a substitute for it as U+0027 is for a proper apostrophe (this
would become apparent with typefaces that feature a distinctive canted
hyphen; I don’t personally care much for proper minus signs, though, I’m
not really geek enough to know what to look for .

I don’t think it is safe to use it on the web, but it is has been quite
a while that I checked.

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