Re: Support of U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN in current software

From: Robert Abel (freakrob@googlemail.com)
Date: Fri Aug 14 2009 - 04:43:15 CDT

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    Hi Karl,

    Microsoft Word 2007 shows correct behaviour for me as well.

    Regards,

    Robert Abel

    Karl Pentzlin schrieb:
    > The following line contains a U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN after each "test"
    > test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­test­
    >
    > When I include this line in any document, I expect to see something
    > like:
    > testtesttesttest- <Column border here>
    > testtesttesttest-
    > testtesttesttest- ...
    >
    > But doing this in texts displayed with the current versions of
    > Microsoft Word, Quark Express, Emurasoft EmEditor, Microsoft Internet
    > Explorer, or Firefox, the line is broken at arbitrary places mostly
    > within the "test" letter sequence. Also, hyphens are shown only
    > sometimes at these breaks.
    >
    > Is there any explanation?
    >
    > - Karl Pentzlin
    >
    >
    >

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