en dash

Any way to create an en-dash (–)? The only other option on the hyphen key seems to be the em-dash..

Any way to create an en-dash (–)?

Of course, it also depends on what keyboard, font face, language, and type of encoding used for reading. This example is wireless keyboard in Times New Roman.

OS X and iOS are both Unicode and creating a character like that should not depend on the font unless the user has added something very non-standard to his system.

I was referring to how the characters look with different font faces.

On the iPad, when you hold down a key for an extended period of time, the character options pop up above the key. On the standard keyboard, you can select from a palette of accented characters and alternates.

On the numbers and symbols layout, holding down the key gives you alternate symbol options. Hold down the hyphen and you can choose from em, en and the hyphen of course. Try it out on all the keys, it's a nice feature.