The ASCII hyphen is not either em nor en dash; ironically enough, by definition, both coincide with it when you consider the typical low-resolution, low-effort fixed-width fonts. The definition of the usual suspects is simply that the dash is the same width as the letter, lowercase en or lowercase em.
The ASCII hyphen is not either em nor en dash; ironically enough, by definition, both coincide with it when you consider the typical low-resolution, low-effort fixed-width fonts. The definition of the usual suspects is simply that the dash is the same width as the letter, lowercase en or lowercase em.