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Describe the bug
Users have been using em dashes in their content incorrectly. They should be using en dashes instead. Hopefully there is a global fix we can do to fix this across the whole website.
Em dashes are sometimes incorrectly used as punctuation. Amnesty House Style states:
Use dashes (–), with a space on either side, NOT hyphens, as a form of punctuation, such as to indicate a
break in the natural syntax of a sentence in speech. Use an en-dash (–), not the longer em-dash (—).
If we simply replaced all em dashes on the website with en dashes, this should work as a fix.
However, em dashes are also sometimes used with no spaces on either side. In this case we would want to replace the em dash with an en dash but also add a space on either side.
I'm trying to collect some more examples of this.
We may want to check whether a similar issue is happening with French/Spanish/Arabic text.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered:
The rule does not apply to Spanish, so please skip the Spanish site when you launch the find-and-replace operation.
In fact, in Spanish the correct dash is the longer one (—).
In French, the rule is (or was) to use the em-dash, but it's almost never followed, and today both the en-dash and em-dash can be considered as correct when used to introduce a parenthetical element, so no need to fix anything in French! 🙂
Describe the bug
Users have been using em dashes in their content incorrectly. They should be using en dashes instead. Hopefully there is a global fix we can do to fix this across the whole website.
Em dashes are sometimes incorrectly used as punctuation. Amnesty House Style states:
Examples:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/careers/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/tech/surveillance-giants/
https://www.amnesty.org/en/petition/unite-for-afghanistan/
If we simply replaced all em dashes on the website with en dashes, this should work as a fix.
However, em dashes are also sometimes used with no spaces on either side. In this case we would want to replace the em dash with an en dash but also add a space on either side.
I'm trying to collect some more examples of this.
We may want to check whether a similar issue is happening with French/Spanish/Arabic text.
The text was updated successfully, but these errors were encountered: