Does sf::Text render dashes?

[wh1t3crayon]

I'm trying to make a graphical representation of an Emily Dickinson poem, which is full of dashes in its lines. I open a text file with the poem and read from it, copying the lines into sf::text objects, but when displayed the dashes just appear as empty boxes. Any suggestions?

[eXpl0it3r]

Use a different font, which supports these dashes?

[wh1t3crayon]

Both TNR and Arial don't work, which is surprising. Do you know what fonts do work for this?

[eXpl0it3r]

No idea what sort of dashes you use.
If you want more help you need to provide a complete and minimal code example.
Also a screenshot and example input would be useful.

[wh1t3crayon]

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Well, this is annoying. If I hardcode my string instead of reading from a file, the hyphen shows up (I meant hyphen earlier). code=cpp]
//this works
std::string str = "One need not be a Chamber -";
sf::Font font;
font.loadFromFile("fonts/times.ttf");
sf::Text text(str, font);
text.setPosition(50, 50);
text.setCharacterSize(30);
text.setColor(sf::Color::White);
window.draw(text);
window.display();


//this does not work, hyphen shows up as a outlined box
font.loadFromFile("fonts/times.ttf");
std::string line;
std::ifstream poem;
poem.open("files/poem.txt");
//for poem iteration
int i = 0;
while(getline(poem, line)){
Text text(line, font);
text.AssignVals();
texts_.push_back(text);
i++;
}
I'll take this to a c++ forum as it's not a sfml problem, but does anybody know why the hardcoded string would render but reading from a file wouldn't?

Edit:
Answer: the "hyphens" in my file weren't actually hyphens... thanks copy and paste