Why are hyphens between numbers displayed as en dashes?

Try this. Type a few numbers, then a hyphen, then another number. Now look what happens to the hyphen. It looks like an en dash, doesn't it? (If you don't know what an en dash is, type Option-hyphen.) The weird thing is that the character isn't replaced; it's just displayed differently. If you copy the text and paste it into a different program, you get the characters as they were actually entered (unless that program is TextEdit, which has the same problem).
Why does it do this? Does Apple think we're too stupid to type Option-hyphen when we want an en dash? Are they assuming it's always incorrect to place a hyphen between two numbers? I can think of a lot of cases where it's not: nine-digit ZIP codes, telephone numbers and credit card numbers, to name a few. How can I get it to display a hyphen when I enter a hyphen?

I've observed the same behavior with all of the fonts you list. The differences between hyphen and n-dash in Sand, Techno, and Textile are subtle. (It helps to increase the font size to 40 or so). The differences in Helvetica are not subtle.
I have two versions of Helvetica on my computer: 3.5a3 and 5.0d8e2, in :System Folder:Fonts: and :System:Library:Fonts: respectively. That is, the older version is in my System 9 folder.
The problem happens with the older versions of the fonts. If I make sure that the newer ones are active in Font Book, the problem doesn't happen. Sand, Techno, and Textile are also old fonts in my System 9 folder.
I'm guessing that this problem was fixed in updated fonts, in some MacOS X update, but that Sand, Techno, and Textile have never been touched. The CY versions of fonts were most likely based on the older fonts, and not updated when their counterparts were.
So, you can probably fix the problem with Helvetica and Courier, by making sure that the old versions are disabled or deleted. As for the rest, you could report them to Apple, but I don't think that Sand, Techno, and Textile have shipped any time recently. The Cyrillic fonts deserve to be fixed, though.
As for a workaround: you could try using a non-breaking hyphen (U2011), or inserting a narrow no-break space (U202F) after the hyphen. Some of these fonts don't have the non-breaking hyphen, so it just gets substituted and looks bad.

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