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style-guide: recommend hyphen over en dash and em dash (#15407)

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## Language-Specific Rules
The below section contains additional language-specific rules for translating pages:
The below section contains additional language-specific rules:
### English-Specific Rules
A normal hyphen (`-`) should be used in places where various style guides may recommend en dash (`–`) or em dash (`—`).
- For example, use `for lengths 3-12` rather than `for lengths 3–12`
The reason for this is four-fold:
1. There is no widely accepted standard among various style guides on when each of these dashes should be used.
2. Hyphen (`-`) is the only dash-like character in ASCII, which reduces the likelihood of compatibility issues.
3. Hyphen (`-`) is by far the easiest to type.
4. Many English speakers, especially non-native ones, are not aware of the difference.
### Chinese-Specific Rules