[issue30680] textwrap should treat Unicode em-dash like ASCII em-dash

[Inada Naoki]

Inada Naoki <songofacandy at gmail.com> added the comment:

> Agreed. It makes great sense that textwrap started as highly ASCII-centric. But in the Python 3, Unicode-friendly era, ASCII-biased isn't where we should leave things.

It needs Unicode experts. If we support Unicode, we should implemente UAX #14.
http://www.unicode.org/reports/tr14/tr14-45.html

But I am not sure some core developer love textwrap and Unicode enough to implement it.
It can be implemented in 3rd party package before adding it in stdlib.

Then, is U+2014 really important to implement even though we can not implement UAX#14 in foreseeable future?
It doesn't make sense to me.

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