Hyphens versus underscores

[Rick]

On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 8:08 AM, Joel Hammer <joel at hammershome.com> wrote:

> There are some situations where hyphens are forbiden or
> ambiguous characters.
>
> For example, you may think you have hit the hyphen button,
> but is that a dash or a hypen? They are different. How
> can you be sure how all operating systems will handle
> this ambiguity?
>
> Or, as you are processing files, say loading a bunch of
> file names  into a wordprocessor, will the word processor
> think that symbol is a dash or a hypen.
>
> Underscores are safer.
>
> Joel
>
I tend to use underscores, unless I include a date, such as:
This_file_asof_2008-12-25

Joel, can you elaborate on the hyphen vs/ dash being different?

In the printing world, you may have hyphens, en-dash, em-dash, etc which are
all different. But, AFAIK, computer keyboards can only provide a single
value for a dash/hyphen. Am I mistaken?

~Rick

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> On Sat, Jan 03, 2009 at 11:58:38AM +0200, Angel Tsankov wrote:
> > Hi,
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> > Does anyone known good reasons to prefer hyphens to underscores or vice
> > versa in file names?
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> > Angel Tsankov
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