Reflowable ePUB displays date as a URL in Google Play Books

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      I was putting the finishing touches on a reflowable ePUB that I previewed in iBooks and Google Play Books. It previews fine in iBooks, but there’s one instance in PB where a plain text date range is displaying as a URL link (with the default blue color) at the default zoom level. If I press my finger over the text, it highlights as a URL. To add to this oddity, if I pinch and zoom the text, it then displays as it should, as plain text. (PB supports pinch and zoom for reflowables, btw).

      The date range looks like this: 08/14–15/82

      – I’ve tried deleting the text, including the white space before and after it, and then manually typed it back in to clear out any possibility of “rouge” characters that might be causing this.

      – I cracked open the file and loaded the page in Chrome with developer tools active, but there is definitely no anchor tags there.

      – The only thing that “fixed” it was removing the dash character, however I need the dash in there. I also swapped out the dash for an En dash but this didn’t resolve it.

      At this point, I think the dash is causing this, but it’s a bug with PB.

      Anyone else seen this? Any thoughts?

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