Today my friend told me that when he used an em dash (—) in a text message on his iPhone, the message wouldn't go through—at all—on his friend's Android phone. This isn't surprising as the search giant still employs double-hyphens on its own interior pages. Then I noted that we were probably the only people on earth texting with em dashes.
Even so, there are those times when I really want to text someone something to the exact effect of:
I'm only available Tues–Thurs. I've already blocked myself out in iCal™
Note that I'm using an en dash to indicate "through" here and the ever handy trademark symbol. Two things that aren't available on my iPhone or iPad.
Or are they?
I came upon this little treasure called Glyphboard:
(note: the link only works with iPad, iPhone, iPod Touch.)
And other people can put hearts on everything and be just plain annoying.
So there you have it. Just think twice before you drop a skull-and-crossbones symbol to one of your Android buddies, lest their phone explode.
