Allow Em Dash in Plot Outlines and Summaries

The illustrious Ben Yagoda has this to say: "[T]yping two hyphens on the keyboard — and thereby making a dash — can give your prose a burst of energy" * and I agree. Unfortunately, as he notes, there's no easy way to get a true, unbroken em dash on a typical keyboard -- unless it has been cut-and-pasted, as in...well, kind of oddly, as in the previous sentence. Two plain-old-dashes put together do the trick. Anyone who notices such things will know the intent. I'm a fan of a space between them on either side -- like this --  but that is up for debate. I'm not sure why you have a problem with the two-dash substitute.
 * Source: http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/22/mad-dash/?_r=0

This can be seen as one small part (but IMO not the most urgent part) of a much larger issue, viz., the need to establish full support for UTF-8 throughout all features of the site. Did I read somewhere that IMDb has a long-term plan for that? But it'll take a long time to get all the way there, because lots of complex legacy software needs to be rearchitected?

It's been a year since this person posted about the grammatically inappropriate regular dash (-) being used instead of the correct em dash (—) in IMDB Plot Outlines and Summaries.

IMDB is my daily go-to website, and I expect it to adhere to grammatically correct punctuation. Because so many websites use the incorrect hyphen instead of dash (even the Daily Mail online newspaper does it wrong), more people are going to think doing so is correct. Can you please ensure dashes are used when they are called for, like in the summary of Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2513074/

Not exactly the same issue, but I've noticed that some special characters don't display properly in user lists. On http://www.imdb.com/list/ls069450484/, you can see that the name Padmé does not display the acute e properly, instead showing a question mark symbol.

You know, I think that's a software translation error from the browser or computer/software type. I have a Mac and often when people send me emails from a PC and Outlook, their typed-out smiley face turns into the letter J. Assume the same case here.

Have a word with the people who wrote the ASCII standards and then with the people who make the different computers (& operating systems) that use those standards (or don't) some people make up their own "standards" for character sets. Characters just arrive as a sequence of binary digits. There's no relation to the characters represented by those binary digits unless everyone sticks to the same standards

Just because a charcter shows a certain way on your system doesn't always mean that it will be interpreted as that same character on the system that you're sending it to

    Steve