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em-dash-drama.php
// for functions.php
function em_dash_filter($content) {
# add to css: .nobr { whitespace: nowrap; }
return preg_replace('/(\w+)(—|&mdash;|&#8212;)/', '<span class="nobr">$1$2</span><wbr>', $content);
}
add_filter( "the_content", "em_dash_filter" );
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jimray commented Jan 9, 2016

Not to be Mr. Semantics Guy...

So, nobr is non-standard (it isn't even tracked by caniuse!) and future support is possibly iffy. A span tag with a class="nobr" and a whitespace: nowrap; rule would accomplish the same thing and work everywhere, forever!

More here!

Honestly, though, browsers should do this by default. I mean really.

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I like things that work everywhere, forever! Changed!

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