[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23230: Change hyphen in front of "Draft" to em dash

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#23230: Change hyphen in front of "Draft" to em dash
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 Reporter:  kkalvaa               |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement           |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal                |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Administration        |     Version:  3.5
 Severity:  normal                |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  ui-focus ui-feedback  |
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Comment (by kkalvaa):

 It should be an em dash because it is typographically correct in English
 (but an en dash would be correct in other languages). It should not be a
 hyphen because it not joining words or letters inside a word. A hyphen is
 not a dash, it is punctuation, for everything else a dash should be used.
 That's my reasoning.

 Ref: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash and
 http://www.smashingmagazine.com/2011/08/15/mind-your-en-and-em-dashes-
 typographic-etiquette/ (plus a ton of typographical tradition and
 research)

 Personally I prefer the en dash, I find the em dash a tad too long, but
 that's how English typography is.

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