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Old 03-08-2011, 02:29 AM   #11
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Originally Posted by cybmole View Post
so for (English) html, to be ultra-precise we should surround mdash with softbreaks except where preceded by or followed by a quote mark ..
or if that is too much hassle we just wait for e-reader firmware to get smarter ?

( & that's assuming that Kindle even understands softbreaks )
What softbreak character are you referring to? The only unicode character I could see is "break permitted here" U+0082, but I can't find any evidence that this is commonly used in web/ebook authoring, so support for it may be spotty.
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