On Jan 23, 2014, at 11:59 PM, Rick Mann <rm...@latencyzero.com> wrote:

> I have a UILabel that breaks lines if the text gets too long. Traditionally, 
> on the Mac, you could type an option-hyphen to get a non-breaking hyphen, but 
> this still breaks (when I type option-hyphen in my source code file in Xcode).

Option-hyphen isn't non-breaking; it's an en-dash*, which is generally used in 
ranges of numbers, like "20–30". Apple's layout code will break at en-dashes 
(though I'm not sure whether or not that's typographically correct.)

You're probably thinking of option-space, which is a nonbreaking space. AFAIK 
there's no equivalent character for hyphens.

—Jens

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dash#En_dash
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