When typing out a blog post in wordpress, you may notice that certain combinations of repeating characters are collapsed into a single character, for example:

-- becoming —
--- becoming —
... becoming …
's becoming ’s
(tm) becoming ™
'' becoming ”
`` becoming “

and perhaps most oddly, words such as, 'twere and 't'aint becoming ‘twere and ‘t’aint.

To the untrained eye, there seems to be little difference. To a computer, they are each as far apart from each other as A is from Z.

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