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Interestingly, if I copy that first character in the table early enough in the page load, it's a hyphen. If I copy it later, it's an en dash. Considering that t

Interestingly, if I copy that first character in the table early enough in the page load, it's a hyphen. If I copy it later, it's an en dash. Considering that this article is from 2010, I assume there's some JS added in the last 12 or so years that's autoconverting it. EDIT: Wayback confirms it's supposed to be a hyphen: https://web.archive.org/web/20120120121527/http://www.punctuationmatters.com/the-hyphen-dash-n-dash-and-m-dash/ https://web.archive.org/web/20120120121527/http://www.punctu...

anderskaseorg 4y ago
It’s the server (probably WordPress’s fault), not JS. – is an en dash: $ curl -s https://www.punctuationmatters.com/en-dash-em-dash-hyphen/ | grep -A6 '<h3>What' <h3>What do they look like?</h3> <table style="height: 139px;" width="289"> <tbody> <tr> <td><strong> –</strong></td> <td><strong> hyphen </strong></td> </tr>