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A hard or non-breaking hyphen is a special character that is used chiefly to avoid breaking lines at the hyphen, typically after a two or three-word prefix (such as non-breaking!). It looks exactly like a normal hyphen in print but behaves differently in a layout.
Solitaire1's description of it as a hyphen that functions like a single letter within a word typographically is quite apt.
Last edited by Prestidigitweeze; 01-15-2014 at 07:52 AM.
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