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Why not?
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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."'