Changing one character in a PDF

· John Cook · May 5, 2026, 10:52 p.m.
Character encoding UTF-8 PDF file size hyphen vs en-dash
Summary
This blog post explores the impact on PDF file sizes when changing a hyphen to an en-dash, suggesting that the difference may be attributed to character encoding, notably ASCII versus UTF-8.
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