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Originally Posted by rhyous
Note sure why this forum adds the extra "*". I know the soft hyphen doesn't have a "*".
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You are using the PHP tag, instead of the CODE tag.
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Originally Posted by rhyous
[*]Should I use the soft hyphen character sequence?
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I wouldn't recommend it at all.
I know that this soft hyphen question has come up before (and OF COURSE when I do a search I can't find exactly what I was looking for), but here are a few topics showing off what might happen when soft hyphens go wrong:
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28108
https://www.mobileread.com/forums/showthread.php?t=28139
Those devices that don't have the soft hyphen included in their character sets will usually show up as a ? or a blank box. This will ruin the reading experience.
The soft hyphen can also mess up searching in some cases, and/or interfere with the hyphenation algorithm (if the device has its own built-in hyphenation).
I would just leave justification/hyphenation up to the device itself. Those devices that do not include hyphenation (almost all older ereaders), and/or crappy justification algorithms... that is just too bad.