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[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

Long pressing the hyphen on the Google keyboard on Android also gives the option of selecting an en dash or em dash.

On Linux, if you have the compose key enabled, Compose key + three hyphens in a row will generate an em dash (en dash is two hyphens).

[–] hibsen@lemmy.world 1 points 5 hours ago (1 children)

…well I’m definitely turning that on for my Linux machine then. Thanks for the tip.

[–] exasperation@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago

It's convenient for a lot of things. Curly quotes, specialized dashes, mathematical symbols or Greek letters used in math/science, foreign currencies, things like paragraph symbols (¶) or section symbols (§), etc.