Using Special Characters in Email

Question

A recent email that was sent out of my organization included an em-dash — character. However, Gmail appears to demote this character to a hyphen. En-dashes seem to show up okay, too.

I also tried a range of other characters but it seems like the em-dash is the only one with problems.

Is there a way to get an em-dash to appear correctly in Gmail? Are there other characters that won't appear correctly?

Answer 1

It seems that Google classify all of it into just a normal hyphen.

Quoted from the website:

Notes from Google: Google treats hyphens, en dashes, and em dashes as the same character, translating them all into “–”. Neither the en nor the em appear on standard keyboards making them even harder to use.

http://www.pcwizardsinc.com/home/googleappsgmail-insertingen-dashorem-dashes