[New-bugs-announce] [issue30680] textwrap should treat Unicode em-dash like ASCII em-dash

[Jonathan Eunice]

New submission from Jonathan Eunice:

The textwrap module goes to great lengths to "do the right thing" when it finds the ASCII simulation of an em-dash (two or more consecutive hyphens), but it does nothing to recognize and similarly treat true (Unicode) em-dashes (aka '\N{EM DASH}', '\u2014', or U+2014). Real em-dashes should get at least as good a treatment as simulated em-dashes.

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components: Library (Lib)
messages: 296124
nosy: jonathaneunice
priority: normal
severity: normal
status: open
title: textwrap should treat Unicode em-dash like ASCII em-dash
type: enhancement
versions: Python 3.7

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