Chad Perrin wrote:
Damn typography snobs... ;)
That may look like a joke, but I agree -- endashes are rare enough in comparison that it seems that if one of the two is going to be somewhat unintuitive, it should be the endash, and thus the HTML entity strikes me as a good answer to the problem.
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. And it's not astonishing that users here are used for years to write -- to instruct word processors to use an en dash.
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.
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