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It has two potential benefits:

— In the context of automatic text processing, it unambiguously indicates the function of a hyphen, as opposed to a minus

— Fonts can choose to make the hyphen-minus a bit wider than a regular hyphen, to accommodate the usage as a minus sign. In that case, U+2010 would be typographically more appropriate for a hyphen, similar to how U+2212 usually is typographically more appropriate for a minus sign.




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