[DejaVu-bugs] [Bug 7530] I don't like how - does not match the width of +

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------- Additional Comments From benlaenen at gmail.com  2006-07-15 07:48 -------
That's because "-" (U+002D) is the glyph "HYPHEN-MINUS", which means that the 
glyph is used for hyphen too. For the minus sign you should use "−" (U+2212), 
which has the desirable length.

>From http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr25/tr25-7.html :

[quote]
Minus sign. U+2212 minus sign is the preferred representation of the unary and 
binary minus sign rather than the ASCII-derived U+002D hyphen-minus, because 
U+2212 is unambiguous and because it is rendered with a more desirable 
length, usually longer than a hyphen. 
[/quote]

This has been discussed before. Making "-" the same size as "+" would make 
the "-" much less usable as hyphen.          
     
     
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