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ISO symbol for soft hyphen. In computing and typesetting, a soft hyphen (Unicode U+00AD SOFT HYPHEN (­)) or syllable hyphen, is a code point reserved in some coded character sets for the purpose of breaking words across lines by inserting visible hyphens if they fall on the line end but remain invisible within the line.
The familiar Alt+### combination (where ### is from 0 to 255) retains the old MS-DOS behavior, i.e., generates characters from the legacy code pages now called "OEM code pages." For instance, the combination Alt + 1 6 3 would result in ú (Latin letter u with acute accent ) which is at 163 in the OEM code page of CP437 or CP850. [ 2 ]
There are also key chord combinations, such as keying an en dash ('–') by holding ALT+0150 on the numeric keypad of MS Windows computers. The HTML codes can be used where a literal character would cause confusion, such as using code "[" or "]" to show the left or right square bracket ('[' or ']').
Soft hyphen or non-breaking hyphen (-) is a hidden separator for hyphenation in the places specified by the user, regardless of the automatic hyphenation. [4]
A soft hyphen is an "optional" hyphen – a point at which a word may be broken over the end of a line, with a visible hyphen inserted at line end. The ultimate decision as to whether a particular word will be broken is made by the browser, and depends on a combination of text-layout heuristics , user preferences set in the browser, and ...
0173 U+00EE î 238 0303 0256 î Latin Small Letter I with circumflex 0174 U+00EF ï 239 0303 0257 ï Latin Small Letter I with diaeresis 0175 U+00F0 ð 240 0303 0260 ð Latin Small Letter Eth 0176 U+00F1 ñ 241 0303 0261 ñ Latin Small Letter N with tilde 0177 U+00F2 ò 242 0303 0262 ò Latin Small Letter O with grave 0178
The Alt key has come to replace the Meta key of the old MIT keyboards. In their original function, both Alt and Meta would set the high bit of the signal generated by the key to 1 (for example, A generates 01000001 while Alt+A generates 11000001).
The formal, primary Unicode name is unique over all names, only uses certain characters & format, and is guaranteed never to change. The formal name consists of characters A–Z (uppercase), 0–9, " " (space), and "-" (hyphen). Next to this name, a character can have one or more formal (normative) alias names. Such an alias name also follows ...