[Libreoffice-ux-advise] [Bug 156046] Autocorrect replaces " - " with " – " instead of " — " (en-dash instead of em-dash)

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https://bugs.documentfoundation.org/show_bug.cgi?id=156046

--- Comment #6 from Eyal Rozenberg <eyalroz1 at gmx.com> ---
(In reply to Heiko Tietze from comment #5)
> En-dash can be expressed by two hyphen, EM by three. I think we do a good
> job with converting it.

This bug is not about that. Please re-read the title and comment #2. Remember,
we are talking about the case of a user who is not indicating "explicitly" what
they want using multiple-dashes or other sequences of characters intended for
replacement.



> And wonder if other languages than English have
> different punctuation guides. 

That's a completely different issue; we currently have a
uniform-across-languages behavior and nobody has challenged it, so this
objection sounds TBH like a deflection.

The question is very simple: What's the better choice for replacing the hyphen
in a " - " sequence: Should it be an En-dash or an Em-dash. Since there is no
bug suggesting that we should redo this whole logic, this question stands. So,
unless we have a good reason to prefer an En-dash - which nobody has presented
AFAICT - we should choose an Em-dash.

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