Weird dash character in PHP

Question

I have a weird dash in my text, which isn\'t being detected in a str_replace.

Here is an example:

Sun: 10:00 – 3:00pm

I don

Answer 1

En - Dash we're used to seeing
Em – Dash that we're supposed to use most of the time where use "-".
Basically, it's a grammar thing.

Read up on Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash

On a mac (with US Keyboard Layout) I get it hitting Alt+- , same as you get _ with shift+_

You don't need any special treatement to it as it were some chinese symbol. It is a valid character. Treat it as such: str_replace('–', 'em dash');.