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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by tedunangst on Thursday March 27, 2025 @05:30PM (#43498417)
This is because the original was written using the wrong markup. When the output was ascii, nobody noticed, but it matters when the output is unicode.
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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by o11c on Thursday March 27, 2025 @05:59PM (#43498672)
That's revisionism. It was considered correct historically, before someone decided to unilaterally declare all existing man pages "wrong".
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Re:How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-) by tedunangst on Thursday March 27, 2025 @07:21PM (#43499403)
It's like we spent twenty years writing (mindlessly copying) web pages with &mdash and only viewing them with lynx, and then somebody makes a graphical browser and the mistake is apparent, but I don't think the browser is in the wrong.
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