diff --git a/ground/classes/Markdown.php b/ground/classes/Markdown.php
index 5adff6b..c3d3eca 100644
--- a/ground/classes/Markdown.php
+++ b/ground/classes/Markdown.php
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ class Markdown
 		$string = preg_replace($pr, $rep, $string);
 
 		// \n & \r
-		$string = str_replace(array("\n","\r"), ' ', $string);
+		$string = str_replace(array("\n","\r",' -- '), array(' ', ' ',' – '), $string);
 
 		// multi-space
 		$pr = '(\s{2,})';
diff --git a/ground/controllers/ArticlesController.php b/ground/controllers/ArticlesController.php
index e01f56e..4e6c3b1 100644
--- a/ground/controllers/ArticlesController.php
+++ b/ground/controllers/ArticlesController.php
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@ class ArticlesController extends Controller
 		$text = $_POST['text'];
 
 		$html =  strip_tags($text);
-		$html = str_replace(array('<','>','"',"'",'--'), array('&lt;','&gt;','&Prime;','&prime;','&ndash;'), $html);
+		$html = str_replace(array('<','>','"',"'",' -- '), array('&lt;','&gt;','&Prime;','&prime;',' &ndash; '), $html);
 		$html = Markdown::processing($html);
 		$html = nl2br($html);