Character Detail
EM DASH (U+2014)
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This character is part of the CJK Unified Ideographs Extension B unicode block.
Windows info: #151 (keystroke: Press Alt, type 0151 on the numeric keypad, then release Alt)
Macintosh info: #209 (keystroke: Option-underscore)
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Hand-picked Links
Microsoft Typography: Latin 1 - Punctuation Design StandardsP22 Terminal: Why all the dashes? by James Greishaber
U&lc: FY(T)I - Hyphens, En-dashes and Em-dashes, by Ilene Strizver
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