User talk:Favna

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Thank you, and have a good time editing here!   Vanvan529 20:41, 20 May 2018 (UTC)

Minus signs

Is there any particular reason you think that minus signs in Pokédex entries should use U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS instead of U+2212 MINUS SIGN? Since Generation V, the games have used UTF-16, so we know exactly which Unicode code point all of the (non-Private Use Area) characters correspond to. In the Switch games, English Pokédex entries with negative temperatures use U+2212 MINUS SIGN not U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS; the two characters display differently, so this difference is noticeable in-game.

For Pokémon Ultra Sun and Ultra Moon in English, there are four Pokédex entries that have negative temperatures (Glaceon, Vanillite, Aurorus, and Alolan Vulpix). U+2212 MINUS SIGN does not exist in the font of the 3DS games, so they use U+2013 EN DASH as a substitute glyph. (It's not clear to me why they chose that game to try and use minus signs that are visually distinct from the hyphen-minus despite the font not including a minus sign.) In those four cases, I'm honestly not sure whether it makes more sense to preserve the literal character used in-game (U+2013 EN DASH) or use the character it was intended to be semantically (U+2212 MINUS SIGN). However, I don't think it makes sense to replace them with U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS, since even in the 3DS games there is a visual difference between U+2013 EN DASH and U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS.

FWIW, Pokémon HOME preserves the Pokédex entries exactly as they appear in the original games, so if you look at Alolan Vulpix in HOME, you can actually see all three different minus sign characters used across its various Pokédex entries (U+002D HYPHEN-MINUS in Sun, U+2013 EN DASH in Ultra Moon, and U+2212 MINUS SIGN in Let's Go). --SnorlaxMonster 04:56, 27 November 2023 (UTC)