Karlsson Kent writes:
> > For the soft hyphen (SHY, 173=0xAD), the discussion might be a bit more
> > tricky (see <http://www.hut.fi/~jkorpela/shy.html> for a good
> > discussion), but I would also classify that one as printable as well,
> > and so does Unicode.
>
> It's visible in rendering when an auto-linewrap follows it. It should not
> be shown if there is no (auto)line-wrap immediately after it.
That's only one of the positions that various standards take on this
point. The other position is that the SHY should be always visible.
Therefore you are not getting into trouble if you create text with SHY
at the end of a line, but you *will* get trouble if you create text with
SHY in the middle.
> And the character itself should NOT be removed when a paragraph is
> reflowed.
I don't know where you take that from.
I'd on the contrary recommend that paragraph reformatters convert
U+00AD "SOFT HYPHEN" to U+2027 "HYPHENATION POINT" when removing the
line break following it.
Bruno
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