[mb-style] Unicode objections

[Alex Mauer]

On 2/5/2011 10:55 PM, abarnert wrote:

> Because if we mandate (that means require, not allow) open em dashes (" — ",
> with space on each side), then we ASCIIfy that using the "--" rule, we'll be
> effectively mandating " -- " for the ASCII versions, which is probably not
> what we want.

Leaving aside why we'd mandate open em dashes in the first place, I 
would indeed expect a conversion to leave the spaces in place.  Why 
wouldn't it be so?

--Alex Mauer "hawke"