Soft hyphen

( Shy english soft hyphen, abbreviated ) The soft hyphen, even discretionary hyphen is used to specify a separation point within a word, where a line break is allowed. If the word is wrapped, a hyphen appears there at the end of the line. If the word does not wrap, the soft hyphen in the printed document or in the web browser is invisible. However, in some software causes problems after the search words provided therewith.

Other names for the soft hyphen, for example, conditional delimiter and soft hyphen.

Browser Support

It is interpreted correctly in the current versions of virtually all common browsers and therefore reaches the majority of users: In Mozilla Firefox 3, Internet Explorer Version 5, in Safari version 2, Opera version 7.1 and Konqueror Version 3.5. However, if a browser ignores this information, thus dividing as if no characters have been stated, the use for the user no disadvantage compared with the omission dar. problem but the use is in browsers that instead always display a hyphen, such as Safari to version 1.2. Here, the symbol even a disadvantage dar.

The following word contains several - codes. It can not therefore for testing of web browser use. Properly it is interpreted, if a separator is displayed only at the point of the line breaks, but not otherwise:

In Unicode, the soft hyphen character has the " Default_Ignorable_Code_Point property", that is, in search and sorting operations should not be considered the sign. Nevertheless, the in-page search functions see some web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 8.0 and Opera 11.01, not the sign of time, so that such separate words are not found. This is also true of some search engines the web server. The web browser Chrome and Firefox can deal with the soft delimiter.

Support in e-book readers

Although eBook readers actually aim to achieve as the appearance of the printed book -like representation, which is essential for the appearance of justified text support the soft hyphen character in the popular e- book devices and programs is amazingly bad:

  • Amazon Kindle: No full support. The sign is always displayed from Kindle 3 as a hyphen. According to a recent automatic firmware upgrade, it also supports KF8 format and provides the soft hyphen ( wT ) completely correct dar. In the PC application ( " Kindle for PC") will interpret the characters correctly. Amazon's new Kindle 8 format provides full support of wT
  • Apple iPad: The character is supported. It comes in extreme cases, however, to inaccuracy in the margin alignment.
  • Sony PRS- 600: This character is represented as an unknown character.
  • Calibre: When converting documents with soft delimiter in EPUB and MOBI format ( corresponding to the AZW format for Kindle ) the character of Calibre be removed.
  • Adobe Digital Editions: The character is taken into account, that is used for the transition. It, however, no hyphen is displayed.

Representation on computer systems

In WordPerfect, the soft hyphen character is referred to as a system window control character hyphen. In OpenOffice.org variants and Microsoft Word it is in the source code with a gray background, or represented as " ¬".

The keyboard symbol for the soft hyphen is standardized in Amendment 1 (2012 ) to ISO / IEC 9995-7:2009, " Information technology - Keyboard layouts for text and office systems - Symbols used to represent functions" as a symbol 76, as well as in IEC 60417 " Graphical Symbols for use on Equipment " as a symbol IEC 60417-6073 " hyphae, soft '.

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