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I never see anyone in posts about this point out that many common word processors autocorrect en-dashes to em-dashes depending on what follows. Plenty of documents written by humans have em-dashes in them because autocorrect put them there.
The only autocorrect I liked because I have no clue how to manually insert an em-dash otherwise
There were a couple years where spelling/ grammar checks where it would always correct like half of the regular dashes id use into em dashes, and id have to copy an email dash after I spell checked, then ctrl +f all the regular dashes and replace them with the coppied em dash
just do like I do, go to wikipedia and copy the character from the page for it.
but on the internet, you might also be able to do
—, depending on if it's allowed.En dash isn't the hyphen-minus and is not on the keyboard. It's a separate kind of dash, typically used for ranges like ‘1939–45’.
TIL, thanks