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.
Jürgen