My WPF application is reading a text file and populating a listbox. Whenever I

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Asked: May 15, 20262026-05-15T14:09:03+00:00 2026-05-15T14:09:03+00:00

My WPF application is reading a text file and populating a listbox.
Whenever I have text surrounded by a dash symbol i.e. “-“, the line in notepad will look like this for e.g. “SAMPLE – TEXT”
When it displays it in the application, the dash turns into a question mark !?!?!?
I then have an Export button, which writes these back to a textfile. When that symbol is written back, in notepad it turns into a square!?!?!?
Why on earth is this happening? Please see the screenshot

http://img33.imageshack.us/img33/9893/whatthey.png

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Editorial Team · Answer 1 · 2026-05-15T14:09:04+00:00

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It’s probably not a dash, it’s some unicode character that looks like a dash.

Press the minus key on your keyboard and retype it.

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