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How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphens (-)

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650 points Stratoscope | 1 comments | 27 Mar 25 20:19 UTC | HN request time: 0.389s | source
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cporios ◴[27 Mar 25 21:33 UTC] No.43498446[source]▶
if anyone's wondering, the post title is wrong -- both of the first two characters are en dashes (U+2013).
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1. jeroenhd ◴[28 Mar 25 02:42 UTC] No.43500910[source]▶
That's actually kind of funny. Looks like it's the result of HN's Unicode filtering rules, though; the original website has different characters in its <title> tag.