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

From: Simon Montagu (smontagu@smontagu.org)
Date: Sun Aug 16 2009 - 00:45:10 CDT

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On 08/14/2009 06:44 PM, Asmus Freytag wrote:
> Thunderbird (2.0) fails miserable, in any of several modes for viewing
> the message.

The rendering engine in Thunderbird 2 (and Firefox 2) is Gecko 1.8.1,
which predates support for soft hyphens. In Firefox 3 onwards and
Thunderbird 3.0 Beta 3 the message displays as expected.

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