Why Remove Em Dashes?
In recent years, the telltale signature of AI-generated text has become the excessive use of em dashes (—). Whether you are humanizing AI drafts, formatting code snippets, or preparing copy for publishing systems that fail on non-ASCII characters, replacing em dashes with clean hyphens is essential.
What Dashes Are Converted?
Text Cleaner normalizes all typographic dash variants into standard ASCII hyphens (-):
- Em Dash (
\u2014—): The standard long punctuation dash. - En Dash (
\u2013–): The medium-length range dash. - Figure Dash (
\u2012‒): The numeric width dash. - Horizontal Bar (
\u2015―): The quotation dash.
Spacing is Preserved Intact
Text Cleaner preserves surrounding spacing exactly as intended: word—word becomes word-word, and word — word becomes word - word.
