Em Dash Copy Paste
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Over time, I added other useful characters too—like en dash, hyphen, and different quotation marks—so it’s a quick reference for writers, developers, and anyone who works with text.
It’s a minimal tool, but sometimes simple solutions save the most time.
For example, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Em-dash
The reason is that it works for many Unicode, I have "w" as a shortcut for Wikipedia search in my browser, and the site will probably be accessible next week/month/year.
I won't say Wikipedia won't get ads because they run fund drives all the time...but I turned off javascript for Wikipedia years ago when they added the popup preview on links, so I don't see them on my primary browser.