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

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**Category:** Feature\
**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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**Author:** ![supermathie](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/supermathie/32/507518_2.png) [@supermathie](https://meta.discourse.org/u/supermathie)\
**Post date:** [April 12, 2024, 2:05am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/can-i-fix-the-mapping-of-to-en-dash-with-watched-words-or-in-some-other-way/208118/9 "2024-04-12T02:05:05Z")

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There really is no way to please everyone here.

Out of curiosity’s sake, I wonder…

```plaintext
[root@fedora-39 /]# grep DASH /usr/share/X11/locale/en_US.UTF-8/Compose 
<Multi_key> <minus> <minus> <period> : "–"	U2013 # EN DASH
<Multi_key> <minus> <minus> <minus> : "—"	U2014 # EM DASH

```

Seems Fedora itself agrees that two dashes → `–` (en dash) and three dashes → `—` (em dash) 😁

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