Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages

Posted Oct 24, 2023 7:26 UTC (Tue) by smurf (subscriber, #17840)
In reply to: Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages by rra
Parent article: Hyphens, minus, and dashes in Debian man pages

> the preferred characters in Unicode are U+2018 and U+2019

Depends on your locale; don't forget about U+201A. And then there's places where they use U+2039/U+203A … and other places where they use U+203A/U+2039. See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quotation_mark for even more enlightening examples.