How to use hyphen in the Nant properties

Question

Hi,

I would like to use "en Dash"(unicode value=8211) in one of my property in the NAnt script.

When i use that property the unicode value that is returning for the en dash character is HYPHEN( value=45) but not the value corrusponding to the En Dash( which is 8211).The script i am running will check for these characters. So it should get the same en dash character as it needs.

So my script is failing with this change. I am using encoding property set to "utf-8".

Any help/suggestions are appreciated.