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tedunangst
3 months ago
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How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphe...
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.
o11c
3 months ago
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That's revisionism. It was considered correct historically, before someone decided to unilaterally declare all existing man pages "wrong".
tedunangst
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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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