A 'non-breaking dash' please?

Yesterday I got myself in a fight with a minus -. Browsers will regard a minus as an excellent opportunity to softbreak your content. So guess what happens if you want to squeeze a negative number (say -19,95) in a small table cell? It appears as

-
19,95

which is obviously not what was intended. We all know about the non-breaking space  , so I started to wonder: "Is there also a non-breaking dash?". Turns out I was actually looking for the "non-breaking hyphen":

‑

A universe of wonderful online typographic possibilites was revealed to me by this great article from A list Apart. It's a much bookmarked article, and I understand why: there is just a truly miraculous amount of alternatives for our common dashes, spaces and quotes.