gpg clear signed message on website

The goal is to sign a message on a webserver. I clear signed a plain text file and double checked I can still verify it. The resulting clear signed text has been put into a new file surrounded by pre -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- ... -END PGP SIGNATURE- /pre and saved as

problem signing public key, ----- gets converted to - -----

I want to post a public key in a blog and sign the blog entry. The problem is, that - gets converted to - -. The reader can't copy and paste the public key, he has to remove the - first. Example... -BEGIN PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- public key -END PGP PUBLIC KEY BLOCK- -