@jwildeboer @larsmb @evan People use dashes as punctuation--for example, double dash instead of the em dash. If I said "I love #Mastodon--though I am biased", I would be very surprised the hashtag got turned into "Mastodon though". Some people don't bother to double dash and use a single dash for the same purpose.
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@Gargron @jwildeboer @larsmb @evan
But dashes need to be surrounded by space characters, otherwise this is a hyphen and correctly links the two adjacent words together to form a compound.
@jwildeboer @larsmb @evan Othrography online varies a lot. In French it's common to put two spaces after a period. Some people in English forget to put a single space after one. What I'm trying to avoid is a hashtag unexpectedly consuming more text than it should, and in my view, the dash is commonly used as a word boundary.
@Gargron @jwildeboer @larsmb @evan I used to believe that real em-dashes, eg in LaTeX and HTML, and en-dashes, and hyphens ... should rarely have space around them, but now I liberally space at least em-dashes to reduce ambiguity...
@Gargron @jwildeboer @larsmb @evan
Really? I do not remember ever to have seen that.
Really? I do not remember ever to have seen that.
Would an option to enable more complex hashtags be an option?
