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> By the way: what's your beef with en dashes?

Of all the changes in that list, removing the character that doesn't appear on a standard keyboard seems like the least controversial...



To add, it's a character that gets magically inserted for no reason in various situations.

It's up there with those damn angled quotes.


A better question might be "how did it get there in the first place?"


Presume all inputs are hostile.

Whether people or processes, something is likely to introduce the character at some point.


Sw which converts -- and __ on the fly. Same sw converts quote pairs "for your convenience"


Opt+- if you use macOS, long press on - if you use any Apple touch OS.




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