Re: IE7 and the non-breaking hyphen
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Re: IE7 and the non-breaking hyphen         

Group: comp.infosystems.www.browsers.mswindows · Group Profile
Author: Dick Margulis
Date: Sep 19, 2008 08:09

Andreas Prilop 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/unicode/unidata20.html#x2010
> http://niwo.mnsys.org/saved/~flavell/unicode/unidata20.html
> http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/dashes.html#unidash
>
> Anyone else?
>

They look like hyphens to me. What font do you have as your browser
default? Perhaps that font is missing the glyph and the browser is
substituting one from a different font with a wider quad.
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