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The same gems, from most forgotten to most common.

27 gems on this page

  1. UNI-003 ‑ The hyphen that won't let the line split the word in half. Dashes forgotten
  2. UNI-004 ⟨SHY⟩ Invisible until the line runs out; then it surfaces as a hyphen, in the right place. Dashes forgotten
  3. UNI-005 − The real minus: same width and same axis as the plus sign. Dashes forgotten
  4. UNI-008 „ The quote that opens at ground level — Germans and Czechs still set it today. Quotes forgotten
  5. UNI-012 ⟨HSP⟩ The smallest visible blank in the catalogue: a hair between two touching gems. Spaces forgotten
  6. UNI-017 ⟨ZWNJ⟩ The invisible wedge: it keeps two letters from joining where they shouldn't. Invisibles forgotten
  7. UNI-018 ⟨WJ⟩ Zero width, zero breaks: the link that binds without taking up room. Invisibles forgotten
  8. UNI-019 ⟨LRM⟩ The invisible compass that returns a passage to left-to-right reading. Invisibles forgotten
  9. UNI-020 ⟨RLM⟩ The LRM's twin, pointing to the other side of the world. Invisibles forgotten
  10. UNI-026 ′ ″ The signs for minutes, seconds, feet and inches — forever impersonated by the apostrophe. Signs forgotten
  11. UNI-002 – The middle dash of ranges: pages 12–20, the years 1990–1999. Dashes uncommon
  12. UNI-009 « » The double arrows of French quotation — guillemets, by their given name. Quotes uncommon
  13. UNI-011 ⟨THSP⟩ A thread of white, one fifth of an em: the breath the full space overdoes. Spaces uncommon
  14. UNI-013 ⟨NNBSP⟩ Thin and welded: the space French demands before the exclamation mark. Spaces uncommon
  15. UNI-014 ⟨IDSP⟩ A blank exactly the size of an ideograph — the indent of the Japanese paragraph. Spaces uncommon
  16. UNI-015 ⟨ZWSP⟩ No width, only permission: the line may break here, with no hyphen and no blank. Spaces uncommon
  17. UNI-016 ⟨ZWJ⟩ The invisible weld: three emoji and two ZWJs make one family. Invisibles uncommon
  18. UNI-022 · The dot that floats mid-line — Catalan can't live without it. Signs uncommon
  19. UNI-023 † The second step of the footnote ladder, inherited from the scribes. Signs uncommon
  20. UNI-025 The letter of the paragraph: visible in manuscripts, now hidden behind every Enter. Signs uncommon
  21. UNI-027 × The operator the letter x has understudied since the typewriter. Signs uncommon
  22. UNI-001 — The long dash that opens dialogue and cuts the sentence — the hyphen never could. Dashes common
  23. UNI-006 “ ” The curves that open and close a quotation — the straight key flattened both. Quotes common
  24. UNI-007 ‘ ’ The quote within the quote — and the apostrophe the keyboard never had. Quotes common
  25. UNI-010 ⟨NBSP⟩ The space that holds two neighbors on the same line — Fig. 7 never parts again. Spaces common
  26. UNI-021 … Three dots in a single gem — and the line never splits them. Signs common
  27. UNI-024 § The doubled S that addresses sections — the lawyers' favorite gem. Signs common