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Incorrect hyphens in cloud sandbox command documentation #46370

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What article on docs.github.com is affected?

https://docs.github.com/en/copilot/concepts/security-governance-and-network-settings/about-cloud-and-local-sandboxes#starting-a-cloud-sandbox-session

What part(s) of the article would you like to see updated?

In the "Starting a cloud sandbox session" section, the command currently uses Unicode non-breaking hyphens (U+2011) instead of standard ASCII hyphens (U+002D).

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Current command:

copilot ‑‑cloud ‑‑experimental

The hyphens preceding cloud and experimental are Unicode non-breaking hyphens, not standard ASCII hyphens. These characters are visually similar but are not interchangeable in command-line arguments. As a result, copying and pasting the command into a terminal cause the CLI to fail to recognize the options.

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Replace the Unicode characters with standard ASCII hyphens:

copilot --cloud --experimental

Additional information

Using the correct ASCII characters will ensure that readers can copy and paste the documented command into their terminals as intended.

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