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RFC 454545 – Human Em Dash Standard
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RFC 454545 proposes the Human Em Dash (HED), a Unicode character that visually resembles the traditional em dash but is encoded separately to indicate probable human authorship. The document is categorized as informational and is set for March 2026.
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- Concern: AI has diminished the utility of the em-dash in writing, indicating a loss of nuanced punctuation in engineering documents.