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That's actually very interesting.
To date I've pretty much only used the long boy to identify people who use MS Outlook.
If I see the body of the email contains a hyphenated word using the extra wide hyphen I brace myself for a bit of winmail.dat attachments and other non compliant email hackory. Like reacts. Why are those a thing? ๐
It's not too hard to use proper dashes yourself, depending on platform.
On iOS and Android, they can be reached by long-pressing on the hyphen-minus key.
On Mac, option+hyphen-minus gives you en dash, and option+shift+hyphen-minus gives you em dash.
Windows is the worst, but if you have a numpad, alt+0151 (numbers must be on the numpad) gives you em-dash, and alt+0150 is en-dash.