[Feature Request]: Display a minus sign instead of a hyphen

[Korb]

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[danger-ahead]

@Korb if you would like, please go ahead and open a PR with the change.

[ILoveScratch2]

I think they're the same on the keyboard

[Korb]

I think they're the same on the keyboard

Hardware (but not software, on-screen) keyboards do not have minus symbols, nor do they have en dash, em dash, horizontal bar, figure dash, and many other symbols. How does this prevent us from using these symbols? In the calculator interface, the word minus may be written on the button - this will not mean that the user needs to type the word minus to insert the corresponding symbol.

[ILoveScratch2]

So which character is a minus sign and which character is a hyphen? Can you type it out?

[ILoveScratch2]

So do you want the button to have "minus" written on it?

[Korb]

− — this is a minus symbol, −.
- — this is a hyphen symbol.

Their length may vary in different font families. But the minus sign is always the same width as the plus sign (+).

[ILoveScratch2]

I see, one of them is U+2212 character (Minus Sign) and the other is U+002D character (Hyphen-Minus)