–
![]() | This template should always be substituted. |
This is the other spaced en dash template; it renders like this (without the quotation marks): " – ".
It is intended to be
substituted and uses a
Unicode en-dash character rather than the
ASCII equivalent –
, and renders the following: – 
i.e. a
non-breaking space, an
en dash and a normal space that will line-break and collapse.
This template has been designed as an alternative to {{ Spaced ndash}}, which performs the same function but when substituted is less easily read and edited in the wikicode editing window. {{ Spd}} is thus preferable to the older, ASCII-based template mentioned when substituted, in a similar way to {{ mdash}}.
will render as:
This will appear in the editing window as:
I walked past a red car – that was parked next to a blue car – when I fell over.