# Can I "fix" the mapping of -- to en dash with "Watched Words" (or in some other way)?

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**Created:** [November 3, 2021, 2:57pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-fix-the-mapping-of-to-en-dash-with-watched-words-or-in-some-other-way/208118 "2021-11-03T14:57:22Z")\
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**Post date:** [October 20, 2022, 3:02pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-fix-the-mapping-of-to-en-dash-with-watched-words-or-in-some-other-way/208118/7 "2022-10-20T15:02:24Z")

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> [@gerhard](#):
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> Hmm, we can’t simply change the rule, because the preferred usage of _en dash_ and _em dash_ seems to be different depending on your language and country. In German we definitely want _en dash_ when we write `--` and I think it might be the same in French and British English, at least that’s my impression after skimming [Dash - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash).

Interesting! Today I Learned!

Per-language might be interesting – although I’d settle for a way to change it. ([https://www.npmjs.com/package/markdown-it-replacements](https://www.npmjs.com/package/markdown-it-replacements))

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