Can I "fix" the mapping of -- to en dash with "Watched Words" (or in some other way)?

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Okay, this one still bugs me. And I realized that it’s not just on my site.

Part of the appeal of Markdown — even over some other lightweight text markup languages — is that normal ascii-text conventions remain, and you don’t usually have to do anything weird to make a plain-text paragraph render as it should. This breaks that. [1]

So, let me ask a slightly different thing. Would y’all be open to amending the Markdown Typographer feature as used in Discourse to render -- to em dash instead of en dash? [2]

Thank you for considering. :slight_smile:

  1. again, for a pedantic version of “break”, but, you know, still ↩︎

  2. that is, the generally-correct “—” instead of too-short “–”? ↩︎

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