...me that Internet Explorer 7 (as opposed to IE6) displays the non-breaking-hyphen U+2011 or ‑ as some sort of en-dash rather than a hyphen. They look like hyphens to... with a wider quad. The non-breaking hyphen should need no glyph at all - as well as the soft hyphen. The same glyph should be taken for all: the "normal" hyphen. And Firefox does display a hyphen....

... wrote: It seems to me that Internet Explorer 7 (as opposed to IE6) displays the non-breaking-hyphen U+2011 or ‑ as some sort of en-dash rather than a hyphen. See U+2011 #8209 at http://www.alanflavell.org.uk/....fi/~jkorpela/dashes.html#unidash Anyone else? They look like hyphens to me. What font do you have as your browser default? ...

...seems to me that Internet Explorer 7 (as opposed to IE6) displays the non-breaking-hyphen U+2011 or ‑ as some sort of en-dash rather than a hyphen. See U+2011 #8209 at http://www.alanflavell... else? Now for the complete mystery: In IE7, select Tools Internet Options General Accessibility ...to-Left Document on the above pages and the hyphen for U+2011 appears!