Editing Equals sign (section)

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[[File:Assinatura do Santos Dumont 2.png|thumb|The signature of Santos-Dumont, showing a [[double hyphen]] that looks like an equals sign.]]

A possibly unique case of the equals sign of European usage in a person's name, specifically in a [[double-barreled name]], was by the aviation pioneer [[Alberto Santos-Dumont]], as he is also known not only to have often used a [[double hyphen]] {{char|&#x2E40;}} resembling an equal sign {{char|1==}} between his [[double-barreled name|two surnames]] in place of a hyphen, but also seems to have personally preferred that practice, to display equal respect for his father's French ethnicity and the Brazilian ethnicity of his mother.<ref>{{citation |mode=cs1 |last=Gray |first=Carroll F.|title=The 1906 Santos=Dumont No. 14bis |work=W.W.1 Aero: The Journal of the Early Aeroplane |number=194 |date=November 2006 |page=4}}</ref>

Instead of a double hyphen, the equals sign is sometimes used in [[Japanese language|Japanese]] as a separator between names. In [[Ojibwe language|Ojibwe]], the readily available equals sign on most keyboards is commonly used as a substitute for a double hyphen.