On 2010-01-13, rgheck wrote:
> On 01/13/2010 06:34 AM, Jean-Marc Lasgouttes wrote:

>> Of course, a better UI could be to
>> transform a - into a -- (I do not have the unicode codepoint handy,
>> sorry) when typing - after it (like spaces in math).

> A better UI *might* (and I do mean *might*) be to display it as a 
> unicode em-dash. But you do not want that character, since LaTeX does 
> not know it can break after, but not before, it.

> I offer the attached LyX file as proof.

Then the unicodesymbols replacement definition 

  0x2014 "\\textemdash"             "" "" # EM DASH

is wrong. 

We could consider

  0x2013 "--"             "" "" # EN DASH
  0x2014 "---"             "" "" # EM DASH

but I did not check for negative side effects.

File a bug report?

Günter

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