Include en-dash and em-dash in Devilution X font?

[tsunamistate]

En-dash (Alt+0150, –) and em-dash (Alt+0151, —) are longer variants of standard hyphen (Minus key, -).
Here's the article about when and where they should be used: https://www.grammarly.com/blog/hyphens-and-dashes/

As of now, these characters are rendered as spaces.
Would it be feasible to add these symbols to DevilutionX font?

[AJenbo]

Can you find the Unicode values for them instead of the Windows short-cuts?

[tsunamistate]

Sure, en-dash is U+2013, em-dash is U+2014

[AJenbo]

Page 20 is part of the extended font. It contains General Punctuation (of which en-dash and em-dash), Superscripts and Subscripts, Currency Symbols, and Combining Diacritical Marks for Symbols.

https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionx-assets/releases/download/v1/fonts.mpq
https://github.com/diasurgical/devilutionx-assets/blob/main/assets/fonts/46-20.pcx
https://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Unicode/Character_reference/2000-2FFF

(note we currently do not have a kerning definition for page 20 which would be required for proper display)

We could look in to promoting this be be a part of the core assets if there is a good enough reason to do so. It would increase the size by 362KiB

[tsunamistate]

IMO, it would be beneficial to move at least characters from "General Punctuation" section (U+2000 – U+206F) from fonts.mpq to devilutionx.mpq

Characters that will be good to have in core set, at least to me:

• EN DASH and EM DASH as noted above
• HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS instead of three periods
• DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK and DOUBLE HIGH REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK, as these quotation marks are the ones used in Ukrainian typography
• QUESTION EXCLAMATION MARK

[AJenbo]

We cannot move a partial page (256 symbols), that is the smallest unit we support. U2000 - U20FF

[tsunamistate]

That's fine by me :)

[AJenbo]

Alright, I will look in to it. I'm a big fan of HORIZONTAL ELLIPSIS my self :)

DOUBLE LOW-9 QUOTATION MARK and DOUBLE HIGH REVERSED-9 QUOTATION MARK, as these quotation marks are the ones used in Ukrainian typography

That's a good argument since we have the rest of the relevant symbols in core.

[AJenbo]

The additional symbols are now part of the core: 69dbe0b