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Originally Posted by AliceWonder
They break searching because of bugs in the reader.
And a lot of readers support automated hyphenation *IN WESTERN LATIN* but seriously get it wrong or do not support it at all in other languages. As such, readers *should* support soft hyphens so ePub in those languages will work right.
But even if they don't, the glyph then would be a zero-width glyph if their default fonts had U+00AD but it seems there isn't something like WGL4 was to Windows --- not even for western Latin glyphs --- that ePub authors can know the readers all support, so embedding their own fonts is the only way to know the glyphs they need are there.
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With a Kobo Reader, you can get hyphenation for the language you want if you have a hyphenation dictionary for that language.
As for should, the reality is they don't all support soft hyphens. So you just have to go with what is instead of what should be. Even if the current version of ADE (RMSDK) works properly with soft hyphens.
I prefer to have the reading software do the hyphenation as adding soft hyphens change the page number for ADE type page numbers.