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Old 09-13-2019, 05:29 AM   #98
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Originally Posted by AliceWonder View Post
When doing research on hyphenation, I saw some complaints that using the soft-hyphen character (U+00AD) resulted in a ? glyph on some readers. I don't know for sure, but I would bet the issue is the device manufacturer has a default font w/o that glyph [...]
Soft Hyphens are horrendous all around. I wrote about the many disadvantages most recently here:

https://www.mobileread.com/forums/sh...42#post3649942

Most infuriating to me lately is:
  • Interfering with real hyphenation support
    • Most modern devices now have automatic hyphenation
    • Plus CSS hyphens support is getting better all the time.
  • Breaking search
  • Messing up dictionary lookup
  • Highlighting
    • For example, on phone, long press+hold to highlight entire word... soft hyphens typically mess this up.
    • Same with dragging finger across words. In many programs, highlighting stops at soft hyphens.

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