Hyphens set in wrong font
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The intelligent character replacement for hyphens/dashes changes the font of the standard hyphen glyph (the one used for compound-words), but doesn’t seem to change the typeface for em and en dashes. On my own website, the difference in stroke weight between the hyphens and surrounding text stands out.
This effects my website, but also the author’s (see https://code.mundschenk.at/wp-typography/ where hyphens are set in Helvetica and Lucida Grande instead of Gill Sans and Hoefler Text).
Would this be a styling issue or a missing glyph issue?
Disabling the “smart dashes” option returns the hyphens to normal, but I’d rather not lose the functionality.
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Thank you for those links.
I can see that the plugin is replacing the more generic “hyphen-minus” (U+002D) for the more specific “hyphen” (U+2010), and that it has been since 6.3.0.
Would it be possible to add a toggle to the plugin that switches that behavior on and off?
From the commit, I see you noted that the reason for making this change was dropping IE6 legacy support:
Use real Unicode hyphen instead of hyphen-minus (since IE6 is long dead).
I’m all for choosing the typographically correct options, but I think there are still too many fonts that don’t support the U+2010 hyphen.
I’ll have to add a setting to PHP-Typography first. There is a ticket for that, but I have not had time to think about the design yet, so it will take some time.
Meanwhile, you could add a filter to the various hooks to replace the ´MINUS
with plain oldHYPHEN-MINUS`. This should fix the issue at the markup level.
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