#4385 - Unable to display two consecutive Hyphen-Minus characters in code boxes

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Identifier #4385
Issue type Minor issue (breaks specific functionality)
Title Unable to display two consecutive Hyphen-Minus characters in code boxes
Status Completed
Handling member PDStig
Version 10.0.31
Addon core_comcode_pages
Description Saving a Comcode page with two Hyphen-Minus characters next to each other converts them into a single longer dash, by design. If I place two Hyphen-Minus characters next to each other within a code box, they are not replaced in the editor upon saving, but they are still displayed as a single longer dash in the rendered page, which is incorrect.

The Hyphen-Minus character is also known as:
* HTML entity: -
* UTF-8 encoding: 0x2D

I thought I was working around this issue by using the HTML entity instead of the regular character, but that workaround is not currently working, so the behavior may have changed or I may be remembering wrong. At this point, I've tried to work around this in various ways:

--texthere
--texthere
<span>-</span><span>-</span>texthere

In all of these cases, the rendered page displays a single En Dash character (\u2013) instead of the two minus characters.
Steps to reproduce

Create a code box with two Hyphen-Minus characters followed by some other text (just two minus characters instead creates a horizontal rule):

[code]

--test

[/code]
Additional information The use case for two hyphen-minus signs in a code box is displaying Bash commands, which use two hyphen-minus characters to begin long flags:

* certbot --apache
* msktutil --computer-name

While I can understand converting to an EM dash for normal text, the code box should render text exactly how it was entered.
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