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		o11c 11 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: How to Use Em Dashes (–), En Dashes (–), and Hyphe... That's revisionism. It was considered correct historically, before someone decided to unilaterally declare all existing man pages "wrong".

tedunangst 11 months ago [–]

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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