in reply to Re^2: Hacker News titles using U+2013 EN DASH
in thread Hacker News titles using U+2013 EN DASH

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."'