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Originally Posted by AaronShep
Matt, soft hyphens, by definition, are SUPPOSED to be invisible unless they fall at the end of a line. But in early Kindles, they showed up as HARD hyphens, always visible, so you couldn't safely use them anywhere -- and the Publishing Guidelines warned against them. If Amazon is now adding them to KFX files, that would only go to Kindles that could handle them properly.
Aaron
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kf8 is webkit based, and that handles soft hyphens. There's a hyphenate plugin for calibre, and I've used that to add hyphenation to things I convert to kf8. So it is only Kindle DX and prior that cannot handle them. If kindlegen is good for anything, it should be stripping out soft hyphens when generating the mobi part. Amazon probably even does that for personal documents that get sent to old Kindles. But I would not bet on it until trying it.
I actually have a K1 and could try the above. I bought it on eBay a couple of years ago for $25 and the seller left a number of books on it. One of them had hyphenation! Unfortunately I deleted the evidence, and when I downloaded a sample of the same book, hyphens were gone. I have to think that soft hyphens work on the thing, but it may be a little tricky to verify this.