The character is a compoundhyphen, actually created by mashing two
hyphens together. Look at the definition in supp-lan.tex.
It really doesn't work well in certain fonts where the hyphen is subtly
shaped.

cheers,
adam

John Culleton said this at Fri, 13 Jun 2003 15:31:41 -0400:

>In some of the sample texts that come with Context (Zapf etc.) the
double bar 
>is used to indicate a hyphen, perhaps an unbreakable hyphen. In pdftex it 
>translated to an em? dash instead.
>
>Is this combination documented somewhere?  ||
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