SHY, CGJ, etc. (was: unicode Digest V12 #108)

On Sat, 2 Jul 2011, Jukka K. Korpela wrote:

> And there is really no guarantee that programs support the
> soft hyphen. For one, Microsoft Word doesn’t—it treats it
> as just another printable character.

  ... and also:
  http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html#word

MS Word's behaviour depends on the setting
File > Options > Advanced > Cut, copy, and paste >
Pasting from other programs.
"Keep Text Only" : U+00AD remains U+00AD.
"Merge Formatting": U+00AD is changed to U+001F.

When I copy MS Word's own soft hyphen (i.e. U+001F)
from MS Word into any other program, I get U+00AC (¬).
:-(

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