Second, a billion people have learned that typing - leads to a long dash. First, most people rarely use an en dash, although I’d like to increase that number. You type more hyphens to get a longer dash. Why is this terrible news? Some have argued with me on Twitter that it’s more logical: - for hyphen, - for the longer en dash, and - for the longest em dash.
If you type a number and two hyphens, it turns into a – (en dash).
Update: In the release version, Apple contextually replaces - with - (em dash) to connect words when you type with or without spaces on either side.
