Re: dashes and non-breaking spaces

[Richard Stallman]

    This breaks my Wikipedia mode pretty badly.  While I understand the change
    for non-breaking space, escaping the dash like this looks really improper
    with variable-pitch fonts.  Can we back out the dash-thing or make it
    customizable in some way?

You can customize it by making a display table.  I did not want to
have a display table by default, but using them for specific
customizations is what they are for.