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What's the bump in 2017? Did a iOS update start auto-correcting a bare "-" to "—" or something?

Looks like it auto-corrects -- to — https://glog.glennf.com/blog/2017/7/6/dash-dash-it-all from iOS 11

iOS currently converts "--" to "—". No clue when that started, though.

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