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Minus sign instead of hyphen for negative numbers
See original GitHub issueWhen displaying negative numbers, use a minus sign − (unicode 2212) instead of a hyphen -. There could be an option (like this one in matplotlib) to specify either option (but defaulting to the minus sign would be optimal).
In IDLE, you can see the difference between a true minus sign and a hyphen with this:
print(u'f\u2212f\nf\u002Df')
or
print(u'f\u2212f\nf-f')
Reference: Unicode for “hyphens”
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- Created 4 years ago
- Comments:6 (3 by maintainers)
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@kirkpsmith I’m sorry that we lead you from Altair to Vega-Lite to Vega to D3 here but this feature request really tickles down. At least I don’t think we will send you to the browser vendor. Thank you for your persistence.
@dankrusi, this one https://github.com/d3/d3-format/issues/62 ?
Stumbled upon that issue when my minus signs (hyphens actually) broke when using an ASCII-only font…