On 6/23/06, Jürgen Herz jherz@myrealbox.com wrote:
Huh? I'd suggest reading [[Dash (punctuation)]] to see that en dashes aren't that rare. But in any case this is a quite english centric point of view. In German for example (and I guess that's not the only language where this is valid, but that's the language I know well) em dashes are even more rare than en dashes in English.
Interesting point. It reinforces my belief that this ought to be an optional feature. Particularly for wikis that contain a lot of unescaped C code...:)
So please be careful when using "rare" and "unintuitive". That's beside I prefer using JS for inserting such special chars and that I think of interpreting -- or --- to be quite insecure if done by a machine.
I'm definitely guilty of only thinking from an English mindset. Fwiw, in French, I believe emdashes are even more common, used where we might use parentheses or commas. Dunno about endashes.
Steve