this post was submitted on 22 Dec 2023
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[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I think when I was much younger, in the 80s it was more common to use hyphens. But I think this was more when people wrote with a pen on paper.

On shop fronts and when printed, seems quite the rarity here I think.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

How do you prevent overflow with line breaks without having to use   every single time, though? With a visible separator, there'd be no need for that.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 months ago (1 children)

I think the ITU E.123 predates HTML by some years...

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 months ago

I meant currently. Lol.