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@autistic_enby @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans
That's a author for a quotation, not the quote.
Yes, I use an em dish with no space for that, but if it's a preamble it will not have quote marks.

A style guide helps consistency as there is often no single correct usage. Nosy vs nosey, single or double quotes for dialogue. I think British & Irish English is more flexible than the USA. Webster is prescriptive, Oxford reflects usage.

I like to keep it simple, so I only use - – — in regular text.

@mina @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans
Compose in Unix/Linux/BSD has some of these already.

@autistic_enby @LilahTovMoon @Dangerous_beans
Actually in British English an aside might use spaced en dash,, US might use unspaced em dash. The em dash would be for cut of speech.
But there is huge variation and house styles. A quotation wouldn't use dashes.

@revk @LilahTovMoon @f4grx
But my 2004 Nokia has an asterisk, but my 2014 Dect handset and Sony Ericsson slider have a sextile.

The Nokia inside keyboard has no asterisk, but has a five point star. The QWERTY English version has no ^, but the QWERTZ German has.