Hey dexen, I'm the author of the post, yes I've reported the issue before to the internal team in charge of the blogging platform. I'll report it again. I've also been lobbying to move our technical blog to a different technology (I'd love a statically generated solution). Hopefully soon(tm).

Since migrating to a new platform might be considerable work you could suggest they install this plugin to disable the em-dash miss-feature: http://wordpress.org/plugins/disabler/

I believe wrapping the text in <code> tags might be a workaround, though I haven't tested it.

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