Em Dash in Reddit Comments

Posted by jonatron 16 hours ago

Comments

Comment by p0w3n3d 7 hours ago

Meanwhile people who write m-dash because they like good typography...

But TBH m-dash is inaccessible enough to prevent people doing so, at least on forums

Comment by thesh4d0w 15 hours ago

Hard to correlate this to any real world events when the X axis is in days since epoch, rather than a human intelligible format.

Comment by forgotmypw17 15 hours ago

    2020 1577836800 15
    2021 1609459200 16
    2022 1640995200 16
    2023 1672531200 16
    2024 1704067200 17
    2025 1735689600 17

Comment by jonatron 15 hours ago

Hopefully someone else can use the CSV to make a graph that isn't terrible

Comment by garyfirestorm 14 hours ago

Comment by crote 14 hours ago

What's the bump in 2017? Did a iOS update start auto-correcting a bare "-" to "—" or something?

Comment by jonatron 2 hours ago

Comment by lcnPylGDnU4H9OF 10 hours ago

iOS currently converts "--" to "—". No clue when that started, though.

Comment by intervolz 4 hours ago

Comment by jonatron 2 hours ago

Thanks, looks good! You should submit it

Comment by garyfirestorm 14 hours ago

Here's a better version of the plot

Comment by jonatron 2 hours ago

Thanks, although it's annoying to access from the UK.

Comment by yatopifo 13 hours ago

Which dash is the following: — ? N or M?

Comment by quuxplusone 9 hours ago

— is U+2014 EM DASH. (Source: copy-paste into https://apps.timwhitlock.info/unicode/inspect?s=%E2%80%94 ) An en dash is shorter: –.