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Old 05-16-2009, 06:02 AM   #9
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Originally Posted by AlexBell View Post
- I want to do some work on mdashes. The html does not show the — it shows —. Is there a reason for this? More to the point, can I replace — with the same characters with space before and after so that the mdashes do not connect the words?
It's probably the encoding.

As for the spaces, you probably don't want spaces around every em-dash, not when they are just before a closing quote, for instance.
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