How to prevent hyphen becoming a bullet list?

[Phuong_SuSu]

Hello,

My users often use hyphen as a begining of a line from a charactor.

Eg. they wrote :

He said:
- Hi, I'm from England.
She said:
- I'm from Japan. 

It’ll automatically become bullet list like this:

He said:

• Hi, I’m from England.
  She said
• I’m from Japan.

How to prevent this behavior of Discourse?

[codinghorror (Jeff Atwood)]

Use a backslash in front of the dash. See https://commonmark.org/help

• list

- not a list

- list

\- not a list

[tomtjes (Thomas Reintjes)]

Also see

Dialogue text formatting ("-" instead of "•")

Turns out, your best bet is probably to encourage your community to use a new standard. You could help them by creating a topic template in the category setting. Aside from the backslash a couple other options: Code blocks Use three backticks ``` in a single line before and after the dialogue. - Hello, how are you? - I’m pretty good, thanks. Use two dashes -- Hello, how are you? – Hello, how are you? -- I’m pretty good, thanks. – I’m pretty good, thanks.