PR: Escape hyphen from update instructions for spyder-kernels (IPython Console)

[dalthviz]

Description of Changes

Use ‐ instead of plain - to prevent copy-pasting an incorrect command following kernel instructions to update

Pinging @jnsebgosselin just in case to check if another approach for this was found

Issue(s) Resolved

Fixes #17425

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[jnsebgosselin]

This seems like a very good solution! Thank you for the fix, this is going to make my life easier.

[jnsebgosselin]

I've tested locally and it does not solve the problem on my setup unfortunately. The hyphen still get replaced by a non-breaking hypen when copied to the clipboard.

[jnsebgosselin]

http://www.mauvecloud.net/charsets/CharCodeFinder.html

[dalthviz]

Seems like now the code is the correct one, no? I think for hyphen the code is &#x2010 while for non-breaking-hyphen is &#x2011 However, even with that the command is not working for you then 🤔 ?

Something else I was thinking about is that probably we need to add the -c conda-forge part since the anaconda default channel goes just up to spyder-kernels 2.2.1

[jnsebgosselin]

Oh yeah, you are right. &#x2010 is the code for the normal hyphen. It is still not working in the Windows cmd though. I still need to replace the &#x2010 (0x2010) with a normal - (0x2d).

[dalthviz]

Could you try using -?

[jnsebgosselin]

Yes, it works with -.

I thought it was either the pre or tt environment that was causing the issue, but it seems it is something else because I tried without these and the hyphen was still replaced by a non-breaking hyphen. Anyway, it does not matter since you seem to have found a good working solution, thanks!

[jnsebgosselin]

[dalthviz]

Awesome! Thanks for the help checking this @jnsebgosselin !

[ccordoba12]

Thanks @dalthviz and @jnsebgosselin!