Given this character set mess, given it’s often impossible to use the correct character, given most get it wrong, given I’ve no wish to do so, given being correct can confuse, my approach is to avoid the mess completely by using neither minus nor hyphen.

I’m not for one moment suggesting anyone else should take the same approach as me. Few people know the mess of minus and hyphen, and fewer people care. Me insisting that other people use the characters correctly would be like giving a poetry collection a rotten review because I didn’t like the poet’s dialect, and I didn’t want to admit I was ignorant of the subject matter. I’m just not that small minded. :-)