em-dash versus normal hyphen?

[Adam Knights]

Do we standardize on a normal - hyphen in things like series names?

I saw a few recent series with the em dash: –

One example: https://www.comics.org/series/222377/

It looks like we have 561 with it.

Do we standardize this? And if so, should we put code in place to automatically normalize it? It's very difficult for an editor to spot the difference between – or -, and similar things like smart quotes if someone is on an iPhone “ versus " etc

Cheers

Adam

[Jochen G.]

Smart quotes we definitely need to normalize.

While the regular search ignores hyphen and dashes, queries are affected
so I guess normalize in names to hyphen.

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[Hunter Johnson]

There are a variety of dashes in typography but in the GCD, we only use one: the hyphen. Use the hyphen when indicating continuing numbers, with no space before or after the hyphen: “1969-1973" or “#58-69", or in those instances where the usual spelling of a word requires it, as in “Spider-Man" or “non-Euclidian." Also use the hyphen for other uses of the dash, with a space before and after it. When transcribing a title that uses two or more dashes, enter them as printed.

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[Donald Dale Milne]

    I agree with normalizing the smart quotes at least.  I have had
problems recognizing them, which affects search results.

- Don Milne

[Boris Ammerlaan]

Donald Dale Milne wrote:
>     I agree with normalizing the smart quotes at least.  I have had problems
> recognizing them, which affects search results.

While I won't soon submit something *only* changing smart quotes into
regular quotes, smart quotes should not be in the database. They're
presentation, not data. Wrt em-dash I have no problem with the use of
them in Notes (for example), but they have no place in Titles. (First
Lines... <shrug>.)

--
Boris Ammerlaan
"How's a young female like you gonna kill Xena?"
"That's the point. She'd never let a man get close enough to do her.
... At least, not that kind of 'do her'."
-- Blind cyclops & Gabrielle, "Xena", "Sins of the Past"

[Donald Dale Milne]

    My only point was that people DO enter them.  Therefore, it would
be helpful if the machine could convert and standardize them for us.

- Don Milne

[Adam Knights]

I'll take a look at putting something together for series name, and we can expand it from there?

btw the everything search seems stuck, series added yesterday aren't coming up.

Cheers

Adam