Re: Hacker News titles using U+2013 EN DASH

Tangentially, does anyone know why they are using this character in preference to the universally unproblematic HYPHEN-MINUS (0x2D) in the first place?

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Re^2: Hacker News titles using U+2013 EN DASH by Anonymous Monk on Jan 09, 2024 at 14:15 UTC
Why not?	[reply]
Re^3: Hacker News titles using U+2013 EN DASH by bliako (Abbot) on Jan 11, 2024 at 13:36 UTC
`perl -MEncode -e 'print "because it idiotically takes ".length(encode_utf8("\x{2013}"))." bytes to say what ".length(encode_utf8("\x{2d}"))." byte can say as clearly, dummy\n."'`	[reply] [d/l]