# Suggestion: Automatic translation of ASCII to preferred Unicode

**URL:** https://community.metabrainz.org/t/suggestion-automatic-translation-of-ascii-to-preferred-unicode/147589
**Category:** MusicBrainz
**Tags:** ui, styleguide, suggestion, website
**Created:** [October 5, 2016, 1:26pm UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/suggestion-automatic-translation-of-ascii-to-preferred-unicode/147589 "2016-10-05T13:26:08Z")
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### Author: ![ulugabi](https://community.metabrainz.org/user_avatar/community.metabrainz.org/ulugabi/32/41181_2.png) [@ulugabi](https://community.metabrainz.org/u/ulugabi)
#### Post date: [February 1, 2021, 8:09am UTC](https://community.metabrainz.org/t/suggestion-automatic-translation-of-ascii-to-preferred-unicode/147589/16 "2021-02-01T08:09:04Z")

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Ok but at least could we have an option in the “guess case” to automatically replace apostrophe and hyphen minus by the correct Unicode character, then responsaibility of editors to manually change Hyphen to en or em dash.  
This will save a lot of time as they represent the majority of changes, not counting it is impossible to see visually if Hypeh minus was changed to “real” hyphen.

Thanks

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