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sva_yesterday at 5:40 PM3 repliesview on HN

I propose that humans use Unicode U+2E3B three em dash ⸻ it is an impressively long character.


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omoikaneyesterday at 8:28 PM

> U+2E3B three em dash

I had to look up why this exists, and apparently it was added in Unicode 6.1 (2012) because some style guide required it, and using consecutive U+2014 em dashes isn't sufficient because that might not render as one continuous line.

https://www.unicode.org/L2/L2010/10037r-longdashes.pdf

mokreyesterday at 9:05 PM

Lets just use random number of dashes.

deadbabeyesterday at 6:14 PM

let’s market it as “human dash”

And if it ever catches on with LLMs ⸻⸻ we just make it longer

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