According to Wikipedia, it's been defined the same way in Unicode since version 4. That's probably why the HTML5 spec doesn't seem to contain anything on hyphenation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soft_h...nd_definitions
I like one of the supporting arguments for this change:
http://www.unicode.org/L2/L2002/02279-muller.htm
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While limited, those changes may be more than we can tolerate. Clearly, they affect the semantic of existing documents. It may be useful to observe that implementations vary widely today, and that therefore there may be little to break anyway.
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Anyhow, since it's clearly not a matter of interpretation then.
