22 Jan
2011
22 Jan
'11
12:33 p.m.
For me, that's an en-dash (U+2013 / '\8211'). I believe something on your box mangled the UTF-8 encoding.
When I saw this last night, I looked out of curiosity and saw the same thing, as my browser rendered the source with a dash. My thought was that this morning, someone would be embarrassed to see that he or she had gratuitously, but accidentally, made use of an exotic character when an ordinary 7 bit ASCII equivalent would have been fine and foolproof. I.e., it's a coding error, which we found out about thanks to Mr. Gray's platform encoding problem. Wrong again? Donn