Make Wordpress Stop Replacing Double Dash with Em-dash

1) - Use <code>

<code>-- </code>

2) - Edit SITE_ROOT/wp-includes/functions-formatting.php:

$curl = str_replace(’ -- ‘, ‘ — ‘, $curl);
$curl = str_replace(’-- ’, ‘–’, $curl);

You can comment out these lines by putting the php // comment characters before them both, or you could simply delete the lines. When you are done, it should look like this:

//$curl = str_replace(’ -- ‘, ‘ — ‘, $curl);
//$curl = str_replace(’-- ’, ‘–’, $curl);